James K. Polk Quotes
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.
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Trátame como debes tratarme, no como merezco ser tratado.
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I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
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Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.
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America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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I want to see someone like Bobby 'The Brain' jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated like that make the best translation to TV and to videogames.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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He certainly has tried to keep me from breaking my neck in all the years I've been doubling him.
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As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.
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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
