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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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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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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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
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After a very long year we've got a very short knight.
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I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'
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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.
