John Lothrop Motley Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
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I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.
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When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
