Preston Brooks Quotes
If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.Preston Brooks
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Kamisese Mara -
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Octavio Paz -
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell -
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner -
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
Caitlin Moran -
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule -
I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
Kate Forsyth -
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
Oscar Isaac -
I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
Gabriella Wilde -
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
R. Kelly -
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
Balthazar Getty -
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun -
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
G. Edward Griffin -
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
Dan Shechtman -
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
Warwick Davis
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
Tamra Davis -
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
George C. Wallace -
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero -
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Nassau William Senior -
It is important that when you play at home in front of your own fans, not to lose and to always try and win, to always give your all.
Antonio Conte -
If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
Preston Brooks