John C. Calhoun Quotes
The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
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To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
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For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You'd feel like you've given up your sovereignty, wouldn't you?
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The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.
