Charles G. Dawes (Charles Gates Dawes) Quotes
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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And so this visit, this hallowed ground, reminds us that we must never, ever take our progress for granted. We must commit perennially to peace, which binds us across oceans.
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He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimping.
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The swarming, grunting masses of jackals...
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price.
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Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.
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I'm quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.
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How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
