Charles Francis Adams Jr. Quotes
More than all, and above all, George Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.
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More than all, and above all, George Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
