Charles A. Beard Quotes
Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
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People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
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As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.
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Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
