William Jennings Bryan Quotes
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Writers are so important.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
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I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.
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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
