William Howard Taft Quotes
People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
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Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
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This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.
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People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.
