James Madison Quotes

To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.

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• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

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• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

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• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

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• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

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• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

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• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

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• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

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• Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

  

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• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

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• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

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• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

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• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

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• We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

  

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• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

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• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

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• I have a lot of energy. Energy's a very huge thing in our family. None of us need caffeine; we're just high-energy people.

  

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• Sometimes, I am lucky because all factors are combined - composition, light, emotion - and sometimes not. Most of the time, I must be patient and wait.

  

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• When we're sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless.

  

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• History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

  

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• The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.

  

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• To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.

  

  James Madison
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