Fisher Ames Quotes
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.
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A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
