Alexander Hamilton Quotes
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.
