Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
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Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
