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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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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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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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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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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Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
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It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …
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I'm going away tonight.
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I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
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You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
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The record of the race, hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves, has been the story of facts and conditions as the male saw them – or wished to see them. . . . No secret has been so well-kept as the secret of what women have thought about life.
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My worst work happens when I get obedient.
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
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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?
