Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
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A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I don't complain.
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Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.
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With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.
