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'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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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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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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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 is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.
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Lincoln - they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
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We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.
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I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are.
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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.
