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Charles Sumner Quotes

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1811 - March 11, 1874

Topics

Man Humanity Moral True Intellect

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.

Good Party Good Idea Democratic Idea

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

Jesse Eisenberg

Success Better You Look Bad Movies

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Home Children Practice Because Often

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

Michael Connelly

People Me Writing Celebrate Book

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

Life Great My Life Smoke Now Fix

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

Laugh Year You Drunk Cry Out

I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.

Relationship Fun Cool Think Thinking

There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.

People American Year Liberty Kind

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

William McKinley

Good Destiny Hawaii Manifest Need

I usually write about what makes me feel good.

Good Me Feel Good Feel Write About

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

Nature California Force Seen How

I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?

Friend Eyes Myself Budget Know Said

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