Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
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Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.
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The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
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The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
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Georgians aren't interested in labels or affiliation, they're interested in solutions. And that begins by making Washington smaller and America bigger!
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A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.
