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Hours Tent

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

- A. J. Liebling

Badly By The Time

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

- A. J. Liebling

Father Minister

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

- Aaron Paul

Think I Think

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.

- Aaron Paul

Think Pretty

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

- Al Jourgensen

Week Here

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

- Al Michaels

Weekends Cities

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

- Al Seckel

Euro Outset

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn't. Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Europe's excess consumption, that is, its current account deficits.

- Alan Greenspan

Which Means

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

- Alan Lewis

Nine Very

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

- Alek Wek

Terrifying Sudan

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

- Alek Wek

Concrete Other

Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.

- Alex Berenson

Zimbabwe Saw

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.

- Alexandra Fuller

British Upper

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

- Alexandra Fuller

Shared Hospitals

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.

- Alexandra Fuller

Past Living

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

- Alison Lurie

New Which

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

- Allan Sherman

Famous Having

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

- Allegra Huston

I Was Born Utah

I was born and raised in southern Utah.

- Ally Condie

Deal Mentality

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

- Amanda Lindhout

Trust Movie

It is really hard when you spend your life living out of a suitcase. But it really does weed out superficial people - if someone is still with you after the second movie, then they're probably a good one! I like to trust people in general - it's the southern girl in me.

- Amber Heard

Country Global

Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

- Anand Gopal

Became Supposedly

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

- Andie MacDowell

Some Almost

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

- Andie MacDowell

Big Had

I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.

- Andra Day

Girl Fan

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

- Andra Day

Magic Full Time

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.

- Andrea Hirata

Country United

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

- Angela Davis

Very Quick

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

- Angela Kinsey

Martha Kinsey

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

- Angela Kinsey

Always South

When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.

- Angie Thomas

Big Show

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

- Anna Paquin

North Las Vegas

Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

- Annie Jacobsen

Character Across

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

- Anson Mount

Matter Attacking

Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.

- Anthony Lewis

Maybe Very

I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

- Antonya Nelson

Always Admired

Southern women always know how to make you feel welcome, loved and admired, even when we're talkin' smack!

- Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Strong Seduced

Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.

- Charles Duhigg

Worlds Held

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

- Charles Frazier

Country Big

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

- Charles Kelley

Country Albums

I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

- Charles Kelley

Northern Period

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

- Charles Lyell

Year Kid

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.

- Cheech Marin

Amazing Been

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

- Chita Rivera

School Straight

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

- Chris Hughes

Conservative

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.

- Chris Parnell

Bad Took

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

- Christopher Lee

Southern Accent

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

- Cleo Moore

Think Fights

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

- Cleo Moore

Black More

Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

- Clive Sinclair

Boy Georgia

I'm a Georgia Southern boy.

- Cole Swindell

Love Universality

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

- Connie Britton

My Life Country

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

- Connie Britton

Very However

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

- Craig Brewer

Other Very

I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?

- Dakota Fanning

Doing Very

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

- Damon Albarn

Jewelry Always

The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

- Dan Jenkins

Pretty Similar

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

- Daniel Woodrell

Think Commercial

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

- Danny Bonaduce

Soul Always

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.

- Dave Haywood

Art Africa

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

- Dave Matthews

Brothers Very

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.

- David Cassidy

Country Larger

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

- David F. Houston

Maybe Another

Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unacceptable cost to our principles and to the concept of change that has stirred millions to rise and work for Barack Obama. Sam Nunn would be a disaster as a running mate and a total anathema to millions of Americans.

- David Mixner

Very St. Louis

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

- David Sanborn

Kind About

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

- David Seltzer

Country Largest

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.

- David Suzuki

Spaghetti I Think

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

- Debi Mazar

Been Nixon

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

- Deborah Kass

Fact Carolina

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

- Jim Rash

Everybody Equally

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

- Jimmy Carter

Country Val

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

- Joan Van Ark

Africa Other

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

- Joe Slovo

Africa Which

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

- Joe Slovo

Tournaments

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

- Joe Tex

Other League

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

- Joe Torre

Always Very

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

- Johan Lindeberg

Trust Kind

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

- John C. Calhoun

About Use

I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.

- John Darnielle

Going Mentality

Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude but also the feeling things are going to get done.

- John Grant

Own Them

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

- John H. Reagan

Own About

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

- John Henrik Clarke

Young Inhumanity

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

- John Henrik Clarke

Year Movie

Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.

- John Lee Hancock

Visiting Noticed

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

- John McCarthy

Expect Kinder

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

- John Oliver

Southern Accent

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

- John Oliver

I Am Cliche

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

- John Scalzi

Been However

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

- John Sergeant Wise

Activity Part

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

- John Sexton

Willing Asking

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

- John Sexton

Here Been

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

- John Shelton Reed

Changes Hundred

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

- John Shelton Reed

I Think Putting

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

- John Shelton Reed

Flag Given

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

- John Shelton Reed

Stereotypes San

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

- John Shelton Reed

Ideal Backdrop

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

- John Van Hamersveld

Behind South

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

- Johnnie Cochran

Van

What else do you say to Medlocke, Rossington and Van Zant? We're talking Southern rock royalty. We're talking Lynyrd Skynyrd. The only thing out of my mouth was when and where!

- Johnny Colt

Cherry Bands

Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

- Johnny Van Zant

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