Daniel Webster Quotes

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. 'What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.'

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• Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.

  

  Nan Hayworth
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• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
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• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  

  Edith Stein
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• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

  Gary Hume
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• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
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• I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
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• Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • World
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• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
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• As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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• Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

  

  Ed Koch
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• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

  

  Ted Rall
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• I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  

  Dan Savage
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• I'm just always grateful when I meet fans.

  

  Alex Meraz

• It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

  

  William Broad Generation X
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• When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Up
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• Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough,What care I for the Greeks or for Troy town,If juster battles are enacted nowBetween the ants upon this hummock's crown?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. 'What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.'

  

  Daniel Webster
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