James A. Garfield Quotes
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.
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You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?
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I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.
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I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.
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I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?
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I am a poor hater.
