Marquis de Lafayette Quotes
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.
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Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
