"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."

Robert B. Parker, American Writer

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"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."

Robert B. Parker, American Writer

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"Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule."

Rush Limbaugh, American Entertainer

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"The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do."

Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian Athlete

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets."

Blake Edwards, American Director

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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

Time

"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."

War

"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

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"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."

"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."

"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."

"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."

"Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule."

"The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do."

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

"If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets."

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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"The march of the human mind is slow."

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."

"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."