Calvin Coolidge Quotes

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Calvin Coolidge

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• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Reveal

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Hands
  • Mountain
  • Kitchen

• With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Father

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

  

  Joe Eszterhas

• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Government
  • Rights