Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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The one thing you know we won't do is, literally, 'Modern Warfare 2.'
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Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
