John C. Calhoun Quotes
War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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I can't tan naturally.
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I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.
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Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.
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There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
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War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.
