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.John C. Calhoun
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson -
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch -
The first step... shall be to lose the way.
Galway Kinnell -
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.
Fortune Feimster -
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
L'Wren Scott -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith -
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
Octavia Spencer -
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. Schumacher -
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.
Karel Capek
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash -
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.
Nathan Fillion -
Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens -
Downloading songs is not good.
Obie Trice -
I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
O. J. Simpson -
I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
Famke Janssen
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
Viggo Mortensen -
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.
Jeffrey Kluger -
It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.
Elizabeth Pena -
When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
Al Jarreau -
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks -
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.
John C. Calhoun