Davy Crockett Quotes
I am rejoiced at my fate. I had rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in congress for life. I am in great hopes of making a fortune for myself and family. I hope you will do the best you can and I will do the same. Do not be uneasy about me for I am with my friends.
Quotes to Explore
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Hamm: We're not beginning … to … to … mean something?Clov: Mean something? You and I mean something?
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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I am rejoiced at my fate. I had rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in congress for life. I am in great hopes of making a fortune for myself and family. I hope you will do the best you can and I will do the same. Do not be uneasy about me for I am with my friends.
