Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
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My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
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Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
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My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.
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To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
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Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.
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The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
