Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him – I'm Nathan Lane?
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The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
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Television was essentially my college.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
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And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press End in what All begins and ends in - Yes; Think then you are To-day what Yesterday You were - To-morrow You shall not be less.
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A hooker once told me she had a headache.
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If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.
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I don't have to be the hero or nothing. I just have to be part of the team.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
