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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I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
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Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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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.
