Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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I've never been a partier.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Movies don't have borders.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.
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In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
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Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
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'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
