Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Relationship
  • Government

• There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Never
  • Private Life

• All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Start

• Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Music
  • Action
  • Memories

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Place
  • Rights
  • View

• I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Body
  • Opinions

• There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Judge

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Problem

• It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

  

  Matthew Quick
  • People
  • Country
  • Travel

• You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is something that lives within every living person, everybody. We all experience death and we are forced to find out if that is just the end, which it is not. So what we do is, when we are experiencing a situation that maybe scary, it's almost now a sense of relief.

  

  Zak Bagans
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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