John C. Calhoun Quotes

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.

Jill Scott

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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Megan Abbott

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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Matt Gonzalez

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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

Andy Milonakis

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I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'

Steve Zahn

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I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Tom Stoppard

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Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Romano Prodi

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When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

Rudy Giuliani

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I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

Michelle Williams

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Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts and Murmurs.' Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.

Miriam Shor

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