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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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'
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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.
