Franklin Pierce Quotes
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.
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The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
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I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
