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James Otis Quotes

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

James Otis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1725 - May 23, 1783

Topics

Control Legal Within May Tyrant Any

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Joe Pantoliano

Page Fired Got Off Read Agent

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

John J. McLaughlin

House White President Get Would Add

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Robert Knepper

Funny Love Believe Being Funny Being

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Me Ahead Teachers Always Years Four

I do things on a whim.

Ruth Wilson

Things Whim

When they talk about my job being important, I say, 'The important jobs are the ones that you'd notice if you left for a week.'

Mike Quigley

Job Week You Important Say Talk

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

Loretta Devine

People Think Know Now Become Nation

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Colin Morgan

Work Change Passion Commitment Me

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bruce Braley

Home Time People Mind Problems Feel

People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

Art Donovan

Morning Monday People Me Dinner

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Sydney Smith

Habit Will Way Never Give Resist

I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time; we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision.

Petina Gappah

Vision Time Government Independence