Daniel Webster Quotes
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone.
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When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
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I'm just a small guy.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
