Warren G. Harding Quotes
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
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Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
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I'm blessed, and I say it all the time that I don't take anything for granted. I studied my craft and just stick with it.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
