Thaddeus Stevens Quotes
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I don't like possessions.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so.
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I wanted to be performer; like, I used to dance at weddings. I felt acting was my calling, and that is something I wanted to do.
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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
