Alexander Fraser Tytler Quotes
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
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Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.
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No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
