Sam Houston Quotes
I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.
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She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
