We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.'


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I am happy being what I am.
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and...
PAUL THEROUX
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on th...
PAUL KURTZ
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often ...
PAUL JOHNSON
The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
PAUL REVERE
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
PAUL VALERY
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...
PAUL ROBESON
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fiel...
PAUL DAVIES
The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tr...
PAUL FEIG
I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
PAUL DANO
Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS
Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with B...
PAUL GIAMATTI
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON
Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in sm...
PAUL HAWKEN
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL
I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ...
PAUL ENGLE
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx...
PAUL FARMER
The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife,...
PAUL GASCOIGNE
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,...
PAUL FARMER
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICœUR
Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, ab...
PAUL GREENGRASS
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ...
PAUL RUDNICK
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little mo...
PAUL THEROUX
Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't ...
PAUL MCGANN
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a ...
PAUL NURSE
I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER
I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER
They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how t...
PAUL MANAFORT
What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.
PAUL MANAFORT
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of...
PAUL WATSON
Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.
PAUL SCHERER
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a t...
PAUL VALERY