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.

Ulysses S. Grant

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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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• I know there is strength in the differences between us,And I know there is comfort where we overlap.

  

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• The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.

  

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• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  

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• I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.

  

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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.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Life
  • Military
  • Army