Fisher Ames Quotes
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.
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In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you see on the news... When you go to a theme park, you see Muslims riding roller coasters and eating ice cream. Why doesn't anybody think of those Muslims when they think of Muslims?
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.
