Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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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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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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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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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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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 was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.
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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
