Lord Acton Quotes
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Quotes to Explore
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
