Rufus Choate Quotes
I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
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Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.
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It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
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It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through.
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On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
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In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways - Who was to be the new Bishop?
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Overall, the universe's apostrophe store stays in balance. It seems our linguistic world was intelligently designed - for every gratuitous apostrophe there's an instance where it's omitted.
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My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
