Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
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I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
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On her fallout with Abhishek Bachchan The truth is if someone chooses not to invite you to their wedding you realize where you stand with that person. You may be deluded and think you are friends but maybe that friendship was only extended as co-stars on the sets. It doesn't matter. It became very clear to me that we were only co-stars not friends.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
