William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
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As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
