Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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Until we can get people who are willing to play for West Indies in the right way, I think that we're going to be struggling for a long time.
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You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.
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I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
