Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I don't like controversy.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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The true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
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Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
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It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
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Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
