Alexander Hamilton Quotes
Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Music is my release.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
