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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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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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.
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When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.
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There is no point mucking around and saying we are just going to have one or two shops and that's it... we are going to reach, you know, 40 shops around the world. I want 150 shops in China.
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I live wherever I happen to be.
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As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.
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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.
