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James A. Garfield Quotes

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881

Topics

Small You Place Large Too Occupy

At first, people were like, 'I've discovered something - you guys are married!' I was like, 'Yeah, that's not a secret. We've been married now already for many years.'

People You Now First Secret Years

I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.

Lawyer More Sexist Than Journalist

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Shirley Chisholm

Personality Creative Political Place

The Internet frees people to realize they don't have to live like slaves.

Live People Internet Realize Slaves

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

Loudon Wainwright III

Moment Beginning Writing Song Week

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

People Accept Movement Jewish Israel

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Music Influence Aesthetic Never Big

The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute.

Looking Process Trying You Find New

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

History Name Want Chinese Record

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

Condoleezza Rice

Freedom Power Balance War Support

Nowadays, everyone has a stylist - we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It's a quintessential look that everyone loved.

Loved Hats Look Everyone Ball Raw

What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.

Great Calm Energy End Interesting

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