Catherine the Great Quotes
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
Quotes to Explore
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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Music is about the performance.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college.
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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
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The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.
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What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
