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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I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.
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Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.
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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
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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.
