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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No one person is an island.
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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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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
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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.
