Ezra Stiles Quotes
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
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The course of development
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In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
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I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.
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205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
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Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
