Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
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It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.
