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They Died Crawling: And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe, goodbye. – Sandra Morgan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Write the tales that scare you, that make you feel uncertain that isn't comfortable. I dare you, in a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves and to in turn feel the need to be constantly visible -- for visibility these days seems to somehow equate to success -- do not be afraid to disappear. From it, from us, for a while and see what comes to you in the silence. – Michaela Coel	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Imagination dances to fairy tales when ice is scarred by the passion of skates – Shah Asad Rizvi	added by shahasadrizvi 2 years ago
Had these materials, and many other things now revealed by Pennisi, been properly disclosed by the government, no grand jury or trial jury would ever credit his tales, his capitalizing on his cooperation calls into question his prior testimony and his motives to fabricate now. – Anthony DiPietro	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think what the events of this week have shown us is that there have always been multiple Americas, there's been an America that we read about in history books -- a romantic America that is made of fairy tales. And then there's America that some of us live in -- an America where the rules have been rigged against us for a very long time. – Alicia Garza	Found on CNN 3 years ago
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power... – Edward Alsworth Ross	added by Normando 3 years ago
Fairy tales are more then true, not because they tell us that Dragons exist. But because they tell us Dragons can be beaten. – Neil Gaiman	added by kira_s 4 years ago
There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 4 years ago
People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. – Greta Thunberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing, we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. – Greta Thunberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We talked ahead of time about' The Canterbury Tales.' We tried to get profiles of people - the nude bathing, the couple on the road, the guy who was cleaning the toilets. He had such pride in what he was doing. – Michael Wadleigh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you want your children to be a intelligent read them fairy tales, if you want them to be a genius, read them even more fairy tales. -Albert Einstein – Parzival	added by Parzival 4 years ago
Fairy Tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. – G. K. Chesterton	added by Normando 4 years ago
Children read comic books, fairy tales but we have grown up listening about Hindu, Muslim riots. My vote will be my reaction to our painful past, our time will also come. – Mohammad Rafiq	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Tell the jury, 'You just heard a bunch of tales from a bunch of lying criminal scoundrels who simply want to please the government, and my guy is their meal ticket,'. – Elie Honig	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is one fishing trip that will live on in the record books and more so, in the memories of the crew, no fishing tales here … only the real thing … the unbelievable catch that did not get away ! The Yamasaki Grander ! – Goodfellow Bros. , Inc.	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You might not get a job as hostess at the restaurant, but by the same token people that have a lot of missing teeth live to tell the tales. – Dana Lubet	Found on CNN 5 years ago
These are tall tales of enemies settling old scores – not because they had personal experiences with him but because of what group he’s identified with, there is no greater motive than revenge. – Gregory Pagano	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I thought she was sexy, i thought she was the epitome of that brand that she so shamelessly pushed over the years. But she was very beautiful. And she was soft-spoken and a very smart lady. I thought she was a good mother. I heard tales… about how she allegedly used her children for publicity purposes. But to me, she was very gracious. She loved my dad. People down here loved her. They really gave her great, great Southern hospitality. [And] you never saw the downside of her. Even if she imbibed quite heavily. But she was a really good mom. – Elaine Stevens	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I like to hear all of these interesting tales. – Manigault Newman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ” – Marie Curie	added by anonymous 6 years ago
He has been going to Blockbuster since he was 13 years old, he would go rent Veggie Tales, Barney, Elmo, Rugrats and Baby Einstein (videos). He always rents the same ones when we go back; sometimes he'll even get two of the same ones. – Javier Zuniga	Found on CNN 6 years ago
We all bring our different life experiences to our reading of these things, i'm used to these old Southern gossip tales where all this stuff goes on all the time. – Kay Powell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
From a company perspective and a public perspective, fairy tales are a part of our DNA, this is decidedly something that Disney does and does well. – Dave Hollis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

They Died Crawling: And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe, goodbye.

– Sandra Morgan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Write the tales that scare you, that make you feel uncertain that isn't comfortable. I dare you, in a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves and to in turn feel the need to be constantly visible -- for visibility these days seems to somehow equate to success -- do not be afraid to disappear. From it, from us, for a while and see what comes to you in the silence.

– Michaela Coel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Imagination dances to fairy tales when ice is scarred by the passion of skates

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

Had these materials, and many other things now revealed by Pennisi, been properly disclosed by the government, no grand jury or trial jury would ever credit his tales, his capitalizing on his cooperation calls into question his prior testimony and his motives to fabricate now.

– Anthony DiPietro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think what the events of this week have shown us is that there have always been multiple Americas, there's been an America that we read about in history books -- a romantic America that is made of fairy tales. And then there's America that some of us live in -- an America where the rules have been rigged against us for a very long time.

– Alicia Garza

Found on CNN
3 years ago

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

– Edward Alsworth Ross

added by Normando
3 years ago

Fairy tales are more then true, not because they tell us that Dragons exist. But because they tell us Dragons can be beaten.

– Neil Gaiman

added by kira_s
4 years ago

There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
4 years ago

People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

– Greta Thunberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing, we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

– Greta Thunberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We talked ahead of time about' The Canterbury Tales.' We tried to get profiles of people - the nude bathing, the couple on the road, the guy who was cleaning the toilets. He had such pride in what he was doing.

– Michael Wadleigh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you want your children to be a intelligent read them fairy tales, if you want them to be a genius, read them even more fairy tales. -Albert Einstein

– Parzival

added by Parzival
4 years ago

Fairy Tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

– G. K. Chesterton

added by Normando
4 years ago

Children read comic books, fairy tales but we have grown up listening about Hindu, Muslim riots. My vote will be my reaction to our painful past, our time will also come.

– Mohammad Rafiq

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Tell the jury, 'You just heard a bunch of tales from a bunch of lying criminal scoundrels who simply want to please the government, and my guy is their meal ticket,'.

– Elie Honig

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is one fishing trip that will live on in the record books and more so, in the memories of the crew, no fishing tales here … only the real thing … the unbelievable catch that did not get away ! The Yamasaki Grander !

– Goodfellow Bros. , Inc.

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You might not get a job as hostess at the restaurant, but by the same token people that have a lot of missing teeth live to tell the tales.

– Dana Lubet

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These are tall tales of enemies settling old scores – not because they had personal experiences with him but because of what group he’s identified with, there is no greater motive than revenge.

– Gregory Pagano

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I thought she was sexy, i thought she was the epitome of that brand that she so shamelessly pushed over the years. But she was very beautiful. And she was soft-spoken and a very smart lady. I thought she was a good mother. I heard tales… about how she allegedly used her children for publicity purposes. But to me, she was very gracious. She loved my dad. People down here loved her. They really gave her great, great Southern hospitality. [And] you never saw the downside of her. Even if she imbibed quite heavily. But she was a really good mom.

– Elaine Stevens

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I like to hear all of these interesting tales.

– Manigault Newman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ”

– Marie Curie

added by anonymous
6 years ago

He has been going to Blockbuster since he was 13 years old, he would go rent Veggie Tales, Barney, Elmo, Rugrats and Baby Einstein (videos). He always rents the same ones when we go back; sometimes he'll even get two of the same ones.

– Javier Zuniga

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We all bring our different life experiences to our reading of these things, i'm used to these old Southern gossip tales where all this stuff goes on all the time.

– Kay Powell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

From a company perspective and a public perspective, fairy tales are a part of our DNA, this is decidedly something that Disney does and does well.

– Dave Hollis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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