Alexander Hamilton Quotes

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Alexander Hamilton

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Think
  • Culture

• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Thought

• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Very

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Safe

• Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Family
  • Death

• I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Money
  • End

• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Opportunities
  • Confronted

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dream

• Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Drawing

• She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • She

• Everything's fucked! It's down to individual people to make life enjoyable. I don't have anything more to say than that. I think people should avoid the world fucking them up. People are becoming too uptight, treating their children bad, being negative.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Friend

• I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Society
  • Phones
  • Going On

• I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds!

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Romantic
  • Cheesy

• I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

  

  Ajay Devgan
  • Life

• I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to constantly tweet is ridiculous. There are a lot of journalists at the New York Times who tweet. I am not opposed to it. But I don't have enough time. And editors don't have much to say. My world consists of this office, this floor, my apartment and wonderful conversations with our reporters and correspondents - all of them know a lot more about the world than I do.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • World
  • Enough
  • Trouble

• I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

  

  Alexander Hamilton