Georges Danton Quotes
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I was tested against the best.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
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Education is vital to discern between knowledge and learning.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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At the beginning of my career, it was really difficult for my family to understand what I was working on, but they supported me anyway and gave me the best advice, which was to always be myself.
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After bread, education is the first need of the people.
