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James K. Polk Quotes

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849

Topics

Great Constitution Rights Just

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'

Child Wild Paranoid Valley Been

My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.

Grandparents Passport Spain Spanish

What America really needs is a long-term bill that makes significant investments in our transportation infrastructure and reforms the highway trust fund to ensure it remains solvent for years to come. This will require bold ideas and a bipartisan effort.

Trust Effort Ideas America Bold

Everything that you want Santa to be, he is.

You Want Everything Santa He

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Michael Morpurgo

Children School Reading Learn Want

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

Believe Rich Musicians Trying Done

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

Best Game You Sometimes Way See

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Mind Mad Go Write Empty

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

Feel Place Lights Venice December

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

People Society Saying Black You

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

Good Amazing Song You Sometimes Way

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

Fear Me Eye Overcome Never Hard

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