Elbridge Gerry Quotes
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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He couldn't find anybody who would rent him a place to live, so he had to live in this woman's house.
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
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Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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After death there is nothing.
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Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.
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Virginia Satir has suggested that we need from four to twelve hugs a day as part of our health maintenance.
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The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.
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Some people have got big mouths, and some people were always distressed that I was selected as the candidate to run for the Conservative Party.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
