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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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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If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
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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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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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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 years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.
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I try to read 20 books a year.
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I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.
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We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.
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Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.
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My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
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I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
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I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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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.
