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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From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.
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I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
