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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: french
Birth: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

Topics

Freedom Mind Independence America

I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

John Edgar Wideman

Truth Vision Believe Feel Want See

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.

Anika Noni Rose

Mother Snow Me Saying Black Thought

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

Michael Beschloss

Life Winning President More Devoted

I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.

Change Experience Think Problem Why

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

Good Why Afghanistan Explaining

I'm from a wrestling family, a wrestling dynasty. And as biased as that may be, I firmly believe I am from the greatest wrestling family of all time.

Family Time I Am Believe Wrestling

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

People Promises Magic Ask Disappear

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

Love Culture People Youth Country

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

Louise Slaughter

Moving Forward Research Moving World

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

Alone Time Man Only Only Time He

I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.

Christina Ricci

I Am World Think Out Little Things

There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.

Person Young Kind Where Well Sure

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