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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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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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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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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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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Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
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Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.
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Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
