Walter Bagehot Quotes
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
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We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
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The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.
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When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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The reality is, we don’t want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.
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Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.
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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
