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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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 son loves swords and shields and dragons.
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If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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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.
