M. Stanton Evans Quotes
I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
