James Madison Quotes
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
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It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.
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The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.
