Franklin Pierce Quotes
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'
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We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.
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I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.
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It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.
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A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.
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Even now, at least thirty thousand years after the fact, the signal is discernible: all non-Africans, from the New Guineans to the French to the Han Chinese, carry somewhere between one and four percent Neanderthal DNA.
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
