Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Quotes
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
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The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
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Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.
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I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.
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People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.
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The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
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Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
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I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
