Rufus Choate Quotes
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
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The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
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If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.
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Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
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I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want to take that into your sport because that's where you feel comfortable. You never want to try to do something that's not you or you don't feel comfortable doing. That's where you get in trouble. It's the only way I've played sports and done things. I'm low-key, but I'm very competitive and hate to lose.
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A person who can break wind is not dead.
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The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.
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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
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“I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.”
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Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.
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A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
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Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure.
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
