John C. Calhoun Quotes
It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.
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I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
