Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
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I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
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But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
