Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
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I'm not an easily depressed person.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
