Leland Stanford Quotes
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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Movies are too literal.
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.
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As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.
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I grew up in a time when we didn't have the Internet, and we didn't have smartphones and things like that.
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I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.
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The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
