Rufus Choate Quotes
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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So high above all things that be. Is God uplifted, man can dare. No utterance: he prayeth best. When Silence is his sum of prayer
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New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
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We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
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If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.
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You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Hillary talks the talk, but in my view, she is as big a corporatist, as big a war monger, as big an imperialist as any of the Republican presidential candidates. Her rhetoric is less offensive.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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War justifies everything.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
