Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.
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It's dead -- for the time being. I think we're in a dark period right now. They're going after growers and seed dealers, and more people are being charged with simple possession.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.
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One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
