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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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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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 men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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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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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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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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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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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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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.
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In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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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.
