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 am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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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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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.
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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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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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The grass is waking in the ground, Soon it will rise and blow in waves - How can it have the heart to sway. Over the graves, New graves?
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The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.
