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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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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I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
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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?
