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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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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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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To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.
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Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
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I am a poor hater.
