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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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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The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
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In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.
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Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!
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I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.
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I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
