David Farragut Quotes
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.
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I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.
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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
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A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
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I feel ready for the Australian Open and I feel that I'm the best prepared that I can be and that I have done everything that I possibly can, now I just turn my focus onto the Australian Open and doing what I can in the next couple of days to prepare best for that.
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Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
