Martin Van Buren Quotes
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.
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The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
