Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
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When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.
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It's great. Oh yeah, I remember those days. But they're all behind us. This is fun now.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
