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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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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I just need to be me.
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Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
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I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
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I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
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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.
