Donald G. Mitchell Quotes
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.
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I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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Another revolution! Naples free and all of Italy in insurrection! How wonderful has been the march of the human mind in these last thirty years … so may it be till the last link of the chains of slavery is broken and the banner of freedom waves over the whole earth!
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There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
