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Henry Adams Quotes

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

Topics

Power Men Self Victim Publicity

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Father Community Money Men Brother

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yourself Will Listen Convictions

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

Challenge Keep Going People Song Out

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

You Said Right Him Cat He

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

People Think She First See Here

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

You Need Resources Going Benefit

The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers.

Future Energy American Plan Meet

My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

Future Moment People Team Career

I am a fairly mongrelized person - you know I've been a migrant my whole life, and it's hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally - this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.

Life Myself I Am People Think You

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

Diego Della Valle

New York Bridge Remember Brooklyn

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

Good Cake You Too Much Test Need

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

Penelope Spheeris

Live Nice Three Hollywood Acres

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