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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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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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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In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
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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.
