John George Nicolay Quotes
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.
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My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.