Charles A. Beard Quotes
Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all.
