Direct Quotes
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If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
Serj Tankian
System Of A Down
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That is one of the benefits of having so many media outlets under one umbrella. It will definitely direct traffic.
David Joyce
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I don't like to direct myself.
Vic Morrow
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
Quentin Tarantino
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
Cary Fukunaga
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
Dana Fox
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I think people get mad because I make more direct records.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
August Krogh
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
Caitriona Balfe
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
Adam Brody
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Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.
Vladimir Nabokov
