Simon Bolivar Quotes
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
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New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
