Alexander H. Stephens Quotes
We have intelligence, and virtue, and patriotism. All that is required is to cultivate and perpetuate these.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.
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'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.
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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
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The great love of my life is music.
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When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.
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We have intelligence, and virtue, and patriotism. All that is required is to cultivate and perpetuate these.
