Rufus Choate Quotes
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.
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We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.
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Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.
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I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights, and provide for certain common needs ... A state on the other hand, is a coercive organization asserting or enjoying a monopoly over the use of physical force in some geographic area and exercising power over its subjects.
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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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I have no intention of ever working with the Spice girls again.
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
