Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.
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I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.
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For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
