Patrick Henry Quotes
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.
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I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
