James A. Garfield Quotes
The House has today resolved to enter upon a revolution against the Constitution and Government of the United States... Nothing less than the total subversion of this government.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
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If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
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St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.
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Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
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Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.
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The House has today resolved to enter upon a revolution against the Constitution and Government of the United States... Nothing less than the total subversion of this government.
