Marquis de Lafayette Quotes
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
Quotes to Explore
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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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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Time is the devourer of all things.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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Fuck Bill O'Reilly. He's a muthafucking prick.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
