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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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool.
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The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.
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And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
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They are in bad faith - they are afraid - and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
