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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Game Chance Battle American

Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

Life Family Children Man Me Looking

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.

King Think Up Gone Where Been

It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

Confidence Simple You Go Know Say

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

Work Attitude Music Country Nothing

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Know Limit Astronomy About

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Robert Falcon Scott

Heart Courage Endurance Dead Tell

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Nature Man Present Way Real Act

Sexy? Me? I'm too shy.

Debra Stephenson

Yourself Easy You Lose Go Become

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

David Strathairn

Character Walk Think You Choose Out

On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It's more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.

Morning Calm Game Warm Short Down

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Power People Thinking Way Up Give

I don't think that 25-year-olds should be fighting 40-year-olds.

Think Fighting Should

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