Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

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• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

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• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

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• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

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• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

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• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

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• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

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• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

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• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

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• If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

  

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• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

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• I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

  

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• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

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• I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

  

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• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

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• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

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• I would love to work with Matt Damon.

  

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• What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'

  

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• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  

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• I think that every single person should play sports.

  

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• If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

  

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• I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.

  

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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Real