Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
