Rufus Choate Quotes
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
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Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
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With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.
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There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.
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I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
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When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della
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People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
