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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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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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've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.
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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
