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.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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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.
Zachary Quinto
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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.
Valerie Plame
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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.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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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.
Garth Brooks
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
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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.
Yehuda Berg
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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.
E. B. White
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
Dan Gilbert
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No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden
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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.
Larry Brown
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
Ram Charan
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
Quincy Jones
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No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
Claire Messud
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A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.
Alan Stern
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
Patricia Heaton
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What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
John C. Calhoun