Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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We are wiser than we know.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
