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Toni Morrison quote: "They shoot the white girl first, but the rest they can take..."

They shoot the white girl first, but the rest they can take their time.

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Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical. Albert Camus
Terry McMillan quote: "What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and..."
What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them. Terry McMillan
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley
Terry Prachett quote: "Even a really bad creator would at least have started with..."
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise. Terry Prachett
My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe. Brigitte Nielsen
The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions. Ben Bernanke
William Shakespeare quote: "Life... is a paradise to what we know of death."
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death. William Shakespeare
There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent. Natalie Coughlin
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. Paul von Hindenburg
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. Sigmund Freud
Samantha Bee quote: "I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians..."
I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors. Samantha Bee
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. Esther Dyson
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery. Cleveland Amory
George Soros quote: "The world order needs a major overhaul."
The world order needs a major overhaul. George Soros
Devon Sawa quote: "Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece."
Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece. Devon Sawa