Rufus Choate Quotes
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I want to win football games.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.
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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
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I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
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You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
