Daniel Webster Quotes
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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Is everyone who uses a MacBook Pro a pro? No. It's just basically a faster Mac. And certainly, pros do use them, partly for that reason.
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
