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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.
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I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.
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Joy is the best of wine.
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
