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“In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.”

Years Firsts States Sports Pieces Four Land My Family Western Four Years County Montana

Author:Huey Lewis

“English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.”

World States United United States Pieces Design

Author:Norman Spinrad

“Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.”

Firsts Believe States I Believe United Attention United States Novel Pieces Green Reviews Intriguing Partisans

Author:Terry Southern

“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”

Mind Real States Body Moving Given Pieces Movement Painting Quiet Horse Instant State Of Mind Gestures

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.”

“I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.”

Way Looks States Break Pieces Worst Creation Skins Stronger Chaos Horrible Brands Attributes Gross Chaotic Brand New Scabs Stronger Than Before

Author:Brandon Boyd

“Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.”

States Fall Pieces Wise Pity Height Boast Slippery Pinnacle

Book:Sejanus His Fall

Source: Sejanus His Fall

“Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.”

People States Form Purpose Waiting Pieces Abandon Uneasy Needlework

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.”

Mind Stills States Home Earth House Grows Pieces Rocks Flower Built Appreciate Roots Appreciation State Of Mind Toes Doubters Huffing Homeownership

Book:Making the Most of Your Money

Source: Making the Most of Your Money

“Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.”

World Way Mind States Facts Problem Body Reality Faces Science Pieces Squares State Of Mind Sensible Attacking Claws Facing Reality

Book:The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”

“Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.”

States Peace Pieces Land Ready Deserve Israel Territory Inches Involving Concessions

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.”

Country States Pieces Small Pieces

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.”

Looks Different Hard States Pain Church Pieces Growing Periods Shots Areas Volunteer Location Growing Pains

Author:Alex Kendrick

“Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.”

“We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.”

People Different States Character Pieces Driven Versions Boat Native Native American American Society Mayflower

Author:John Landgraf

“I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.”

People Needs Mind States Together Black Pieces Player Information Chess Strings State Of Mind Frank Accurate Psychics Scenarios Millennium Chess Players

Author:Lance Henriksen

“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”

States Desire Pieces Economic Slavery Southern Humbug

Author:Charles Dickens

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