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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.
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Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.
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Men met each other with erected look,The steps were higher that they took;Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.
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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.
