Alexander Hamilton Quotes

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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• I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Reading
  • Vision
  • Daughter

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Home
  • Immigration
  • Solution

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • You
  • Better
  • More

• Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Woman
  • Among
  • Acquaintances

• I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Body
  • Perishable

• I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Means

• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Strong
  • Amazing
  • Goal

• I live for Sundays. I live for Mondays. I live for Thursdays.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Live
  • Sundays

• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Family
  • High

• Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• My approach is more complex. In a single song sometimes I end up with 200 or 300 audio tracks that add up to something new. That’s what makes it so exciting to me – that something new materializes.

  

  Parov Stelar
  • Exciting
  • Approach
  • Complex

• Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • English
  • Unique

• I worked closely with Steve Jobs for twenty-six years. To this day, for all that has been written about him, I don't believe that any of it comes close to capturing the man I knew.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Believe

• We have not been pushed around either abroad or at home and we are not going to be. This is government of the people; it is government for all the people, and the accent is on government.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • People
  • Home

• The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Life
  • Choices

• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

  

  Alexander Hamilton