Fisher Ames Quotes
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I owe everything to France.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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It is not who has the bigger index. We hear a lot about efforts to index all the artifacts of human knowledge, but the actual bulk of human knowledge lives in people's heads.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
