Rene Descartes Quotes
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
