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John C. Calhoun Quotes

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850

Topics

Time Constitution Compromise Security

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Live People World Details Musicians

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

Think Will Always Whatever Away Get

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Sun Think Surprise Common Sense Just

I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.

Stephen Sondheim

Life Me Interesting My Life Find

Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.

Stephen Baldwin

World My Own Out Up Own Stick

I look at everything in an artistic way.

Look Way Everything Artistic

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Music Respect Art Me Now Band

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

Luca Guadagnino

Work Freedom Great Quality Walk

The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.

Reality Know Always Open Out Left

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

Work Woman Me Strong Strong Woman

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Me Writing Back Down Feeding Asking

I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

Love Good Black White Dirty Run

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