James A. Garfield Quotes
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
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I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
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Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
