Marc Veasey Quotes
The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.
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When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
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Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
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The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.