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.
Pat Buchanan
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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.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
Danica Patrick
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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.
Ted Allen
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
Oscar Isaac
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal
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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.
Nancy Gibbs
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
R. Lee Ermey
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips
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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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
Olivia Newton-John
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Cal Thomas
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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.
Orson Scott Card
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
Lawrence Durrell
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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.
Angela Carter
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TrĂ¡tame como debes tratarme, no como merezco ser tratado.
Antonio Porchia
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I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.
Matt Besser
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
Irwin Shaw
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People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
Fortune Feimster
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
Lewis Black
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Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.
George Gilder
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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk