I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
A. N. Wilson
Recitation: by Male by Female
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
John C. Calhoun
CountryDebtFiftyAverageRevenue
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
John C. Reilly
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My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
Robert Smith
LifeBusinessMusicPersonalMy Own
Instead of arguing about whether we're allowed to describe Muslim terrorists as 'Muslim terrorists,' why don't we argue about whether it's a good idea to be letting in so many immigrants who then blow up the Boston Marathon?
Ann Coulter
GoodImmigrantsWhyMarathonBoston
I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.
Alyssa Edwards
DanceKnewWantedSteven Spielberg
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
Douglas Coupland
PoetryWritingVoiceSpeakThink
I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.
Cheryl Tiegs
LifeBeautyTimeWorldMy LifeNice
I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
Christian Bale
PeopleDownWantKindNeverImage
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.
Clive Davis
BusinessAgeStoryMusiciansYou
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
Bruce Feiler
WritingLibraryNaiveOutAcademic
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Anthony Trollope
GovernmentNeverAnythingKnew
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
Philip Schaff
AloneStyleDesignNewUniversal
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