John Lothrop Motley Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I get homesick.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
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Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
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I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
