James A. Garfield Quotes
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
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Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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The greatest of all prophets was still one of the prophets, and that large interest in the national and social life which had been inseparable from the religion of the prophets was part of his life too. The presumption is that Jesus shared the fundamental religious purpose of the prophets.
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In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.
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He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.
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I thank you doctor, but I am a dead man.
