John C. Calhoun Quotes
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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No man may make another free.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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Although we use a lot of technology and consume a lot of technology as people of color, we're usually not the ones at the tables doing the creating of it.
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Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
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What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
