John Acton Quotes
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Everything is real on me.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
