James K. Polk Quotes
I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
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If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.
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If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
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When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.
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My heart can't possibly break when it wasn't even whole to start with.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
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I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.
