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ANDY WHITE

It's amazing where you find sand inside people's reels.
ANDY WHITE

In a carbon-constrained world ... nuclear plants have got to be in that mix.
ANDY WHITE

It's looking a little grim right now, but I just have to turn in a bunch of homework I've missed. I ...
ANDY WHITE

I slept in today until about 12. I had finals (scheduled), but I hadn't studied for any of them, and...
ANDY WHITE

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.
ANDY WHITE

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo...
RON WHITE

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
RON WHITE

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant....
RON WHITE

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
RON WHITE

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITE

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretch...
RON WHITE

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
RON WHITE

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
RON WHITE

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE

The next time you have a thought... let it go.
RON WHITE

I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITE

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE

I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITE

When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drain...
RON WHITE

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as th...
RON WHITE

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
RON WHITE

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITE

You can't fix stupid.
RON WHITE

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply...
RON WHITE

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
RON WHITE

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. Th...
WAYNE WHITE

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does...
WAYNE WHITE

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunn...
WAYNE WHITE

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasi...
WAYNE WHITE

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude o...
WAYNE WHITE

I feel for the players.
VANNA WHITE

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the televis...
VANNA WHITE

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we&...
VANNA WHITE

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
VANNA WHITE

I do everything that everybody else does.
VANNA WHITE

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
VANNA WHITE

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
VANNA WHITE

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies...
VANNA WHITE

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
VANNA WHITE

I'm really just a normal person.
VANNA WHITE

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE

I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skat...
SHAUN WHITE

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence ...
PATRICK WHITE

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and Germ...
PATRICK WHITE

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining ta...
PATRICK WHITE

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the...
PATRICK WHITE

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriag...
PATRICK WHITE

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the ...
PATRICK WHITE

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose m...
PATRICK WHITE

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher...
PATRICK WHITE

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whe...
PATRICK WHITE

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent f...
PATRICK WHITE

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by ...
PATRICK WHITE

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...
E.B. WHITE

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.
AIDAN WHITE

At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper sh...
AIDAN WHITE

There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demandi...
AIDAN WHITE

The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding be...
AIDAN WHITE

Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no long...
AIDAN WHITE

Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets.
AIDAN WHITE

We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local ...
AIDAN WHITE

The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. Bu...
AIDAN WHITE

No. That is not what I heard him say.
AIDAN WHITE

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE

The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE

I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag...
SHAUN WHITE

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place l...
SHAUN WHITE

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE

It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE

Our strategy is to focus on those areas where we can have a good competitive advantage, so we do thi...
ALAN WHITE

It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,
ALAN WHITE

Obasanjo has absolutely no control over this guy, ... like a head of state down there.
ALAN WHITE

It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Ro...
ALAN WHITE

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
HALE WHITE

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ...
HALE WHITE

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no dange...
HALE WHITE

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE

If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, i...
EDMUND WHITE

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a...
EDMUND WHITE

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it...
EDMUND WHITE

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
EDMUND WHITE

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e...
EDMUND WHITE

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
EDMUND WHITE

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t...
EDMUND WHITE

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,...
EDMUND WHITE

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
PATRICK WHITE

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the...
GILBERT WHITE

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE

We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools o...
T.H. WHITE

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo...
T.H. WHITE

I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much...
AARON WHITE

We're going to win -- I promise you.
AARON WHITE

You actually are in alcohol withdrawal during a hangover.
AARON WHITE

It's amazing how much people really do want to conform.
AARON WHITE

Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitat...
AARON WHITE

Swedish meatballs were the favorite, and the 'Happy Birthday, Poppy' cake with cream cheese frosting...
ABBY WHITE

Most viewers probably have no idea what the difference is between the two awards. It takes a very di...
ABBY WHITE

The theatrical community -- music and dance -- adds a unique touch to New York City. There are more ...
ABBY WHITE

People brought Poppy gifts. Bones and biscuits and toys. Everybody had a blast, including the dogs w...
ABBY WHITE

I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You ...
SHAUN WHITE

The choices we make today have important implications.
ADAM WHITE

Under the current plan, electricity prices are going to rise by $3 billion a year and an average of ...
ADAM WHITE

If we're going to talk electricity policy, we have to talk about economic and industrial policy too.
ADAM WHITE

It's a bit of a jump into the unknown. We don't really know what these will sell, but digital techno...
ADAM WHITE

Might I suggest that you keep the following handy for cut and paste jobs later in the series? ...is ...
ADAM WHITE

It's the first time we've been in a grand final so to win it is fantastic,
ADAM WHITE

To win the best on ground in a winning grand final is absolutely unbelievable.
ADAM WHITE

This one will be pretty special,
ADAM WHITE

It was a tough game all the way through but from the start we knew it was going to be tough,
ADAM WHITE

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.
SOMERS WHITE

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity whic...
LYNN WHITE

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.
REGGIE WHITE

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE WHITE

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this pla...
THEODORE WHITE

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou...
EDMUND WHITE

He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been...
THEODORE WHITE

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...
T.H. WHITE

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life ...
RON WHITE

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' '...
E.B. WHITE

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...
T.H. WHITE

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. WHITE

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of...
T.H. WHITE

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing
KIERSTEN WHITE

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be...
E.B. WHITE

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (o...
E.B. WHITE

He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE

Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag...
BETTY WHITE

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is n...
T.H. WHITE

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, to...
MINOR WHITE

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensit...
MINOR WHITE

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chos...
MINOR WHITE

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took th...
BARRY WHITE

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters get...
THEODORE WHITE

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE

Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
GEORGIA WHITE

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.
TRAVIS WHITE

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath i...
EDMUND WHITE

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and merc...
THEODORE WHITE

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
SLAPPY WHITE

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
T.H. WHITE

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
T.H. WHITE

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.
T.H. WHITE

The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God
ANDREW WHITE

Even the 'maintenance-free' need maintenance. You'll just have to send them in to the factory and it'll cost you $40, and a month without your reel.

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Even the 'maintenance-free' need maintenance. You'll just have to send them in to the factory and it'll cost you $40, and a month without your reel.

Andy White

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