Algernon Sidney Quotes

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

Algernon Sidney

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I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

Jerry Lewis

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To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Jeff Buckley

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In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

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The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

Rocco DiSpirito

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The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Michelle Obama

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Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

Louis Theroux

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For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dick Cheney

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When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

Deborah Tannen

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Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums.

Ari Graynor

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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

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Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Tiger Woods

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