Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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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.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
