Demosthenes Quotes
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
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Never for one single moment have I doubted the rightness of what I did at Munich, nor can I believe that it was possible for me to do more than I did to prepare the country for war after Munich, given the violent & persistent opposition I had to fight against all the time.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
