Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
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MTV shows me love.
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The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
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What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence.
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The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.
