Klemens von Metternich Quotes
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
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I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
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In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
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Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
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I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!
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In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
