Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
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They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.
