Calvin Coolidge Quotes
It is our purpose in our intercourse with foreign powers to rely not on the strength of our fleets and our armies but on the justice of our cause. For these reasons our country has not wished to maintain huge military forces. It has been convinced that it could better serve itself and better serve humanity by using its resources for other purposes.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
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It is our purpose in our intercourse with foreign powers to rely not on the strength of our fleets and our armies but on the justice of our cause. For these reasons our country has not wished to maintain huge military forces. It has been convinced that it could better serve itself and better serve humanity by using its resources for other purposes.
