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.Alexis de Tocqueville
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
R. Kelly -
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
Octavia E. Butler -
I literally don't think about Oscar.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
Federica Mogherini -
I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
Eden Hazard -
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
Marat Safin -
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.
Kate Bosworth -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
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.
B. D. Wong
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
Fleur East -
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes -
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.
Sam Smith -
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.
Baltasar Kormakur -
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
Patricia Richardson -
I have matured a lot.
Usain Bolt
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It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Oscar Wilde -
I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to.
Emun Elliott -
The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Lady Gaga -
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
Colleen Hoover -
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville