Preston Brooks Quotes
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
