Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

Jim Sturgess

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At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Melissa McCarthy

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There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Michael Jackson

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'The Washington Post' doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. CNN doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. All kinds of media outlets - they don't have to report on anything that I post on Twitter. Just like they don't have to report on all kinds of other things that other people post on Twitter.

Michael Avenatti

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Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

Judith Jamison

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I love polarizing people.

Josh Gad

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I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

Jonathan Galassi

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There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

Corey Taylor

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I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Bob McDonnell

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My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

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In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts.

Shervin Pishevar

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