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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'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.
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For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
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It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.
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The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
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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.
