William McKinley Quotes
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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an insult to American working men and women.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.
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No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.
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And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.
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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
