Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
Adam Jones
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
Aaron Neville
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
Yair Lapid
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
Randy Neugebauer
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
Dabney Coleman
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
Haley Joel Osment
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
Calvin Johnson
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
Orison Swett Marden
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
Barbara Mandrell
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
Forest Whitaker
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I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.
Action Bronson
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
Sherman Alexie
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
Vance Havner
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It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.
Elmer Davis
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
Alexis de Tocqueville