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Martin Van Buren Quotes

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Martin Van Buren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862

Topics

Limits Acting Possible Always Within

I love when people talk trash.

Joel Embiid

Love People Trash Talk I Love

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

Maya Angelou

Think Generation Enough You Hip-Hop

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

Matt Haig

Mathematics School Doing Stop Point

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

Patience Music Character Habit Fake

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

Rupert Sheldrake

Father Plants Who Amateur About

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Lucinda Williams

Age Back Saw Mesmerized About 1960s

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Spiritual Roots Proud Person Mormon

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Claude Chabrol

Colors Color You Want Difficult Get

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

Brandon Routh

Think Feel You Go Sometimes Want

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.

William Lipscomb

Science Interesting Bad Wrong Very

I love acting, but I like a lot of other things as well.

Shenaz Treasury

Love Acting Things Well Like Other

Elections have consequences.

Scott Walker

Consequences Elections