Stephen J. Field (Stephen Johnson Field) Quotes
Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
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It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
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All I had to do was do it.
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The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?
