Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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There is a lot you don't know about me - a lot. I have definitely lived, that's for sure. I will just leave it at that.
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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. (p. 36)
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The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
