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William Gilmore Simms Quotes

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

William Gilmore Simms

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1806 - June 11, 1870

Topics

Best Talent First Mental Absence

When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

Football Yourself Care Take Care You

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

Political Problem Solution Country

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Performance Reading Repeat Should

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

Hard Things Because Charge Come How

Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

Music Internet Starting Industry Us

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Man Genius Dead Being Every Man

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

Responsibility Tax Responsible Need

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Style Art Reflection Culture Simple

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Good Attitude Dress Manners Matter

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

Love Women Time Me World Acting

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Love Cooking Think Someone You Nice

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Problems Know Industry Recording How

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