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James L. Petigru Quotes

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

James L. Petigru

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1789 - March 9, 1863

Topics

Small Republic South Carolina Insane

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.

Jerry A. Webman

Roads Start Transportation Build Up

I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy - that's the place to go. That's what makes a great show. That's what all of us deal with in life.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Life Great Deep Think Place Go

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Michel Houellebecq

Hate Me Know Matter Over Battles

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

Roots Enough Back Go Something Idea

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Fear Sports Moment Snowboarding

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Woman Powerful Want President Listen

I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.

Love Sad Mirror Day Goodbye Saying

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

Feel Australia Write I Feel Really

I'm grateful for all of our fans because at the end of the day, they give us purpose.

Day Grateful Purpose End Fans Us

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Christopher Columbus

People Doubt House Single Meal Save

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Opportunity Today Day Job Start You

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

Society Think Feel Say Need Wear

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