John Quincy Adams Quotes
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.
Quotes to Explore
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.
