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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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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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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Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
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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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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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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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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
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We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.
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I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.
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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.
