Davy Crockett Quotes
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.
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Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
