Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.Alexis de Tocqueville
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
Laura San Giacomo -
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
Oscar Isaac -
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
Pat Robertson -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills
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I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K. A. Applegate -
There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
Oksana Baiul -
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
Obie Trice -
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian -
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
Taylor Swift -
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Mal Peet -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
Baltasar Kormakur
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Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.
Bruce Feiler -
I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
Katherine Waterston -
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
Dani Shapiro -
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
Yann Martel -
Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
Alexis de Tocqueville