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 difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.
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In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
