Daniel Webster Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
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It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
