John C. Calhoun Quotes
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.John C. Calhoun
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville -
I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
Aaron Sorkin -
I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
Action Bronson -
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Sally Field -
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson -
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
Gary North
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
B. B. King -
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
Mahmoud Abbas -
I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy -
I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
Calvin Harris -
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
Candace Bushnell
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
Gary Herbert -
Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
Ted Kulongoski -
I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
Taylor Sheridan -
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor -
Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
Rakul Preet Singh
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We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.
P. C. Cast -
I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.
Martina McBride -
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.
Chow Yun-Fat -
Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect.
Patrick Kane -
She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
Peter Bergman -
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.
John C. Calhoun