Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
Quotes to Explore
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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The world is always in movement.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody's help to solve the problems.
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I run around with hillbilly girlsThe weekend sits on my hillbilly worldYou better be ready when the sun goes downThat's when country comes to town.
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We're still talking about women's rights. We can't be the greatest country in the world. I think once we lose that illusionary veil of thinking that we are, we can face the problems and really try to fix them.
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ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
