Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
Quotes to Explore
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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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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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
