John C. Calhoun Quotes
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.
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You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
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The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
