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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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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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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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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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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If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
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War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.
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As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.
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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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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.
