Zachary Taylor Quotes
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. That is my last word. Think over it.
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When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!
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This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors.
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On Broadway, you are working with some incredible people, and they have great reasons for doing things the way they do.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
