Benjamin Rush Quotes
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Pat Paulsen -
Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
Pankaj Mishra -
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher -
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Kate Smith -
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
Samuel Adams -
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
Aaron Allston -
I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
Gary Johnson -
I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
Randy Hultgren -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
Pablo Sandoval
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Care and pity are two different things.
Vince Staples -
Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
Dana Carvey -
I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
Carice van Houten -
I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
Camila Alves -
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras -
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana -
I love producing, I love bringing things together.
Kevin Spacey -
In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.
Judith Butler -
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin Rush