William Cobbett Quotes
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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We are wiser than we know.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
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The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine.
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Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
