"We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states."

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Source : To Oliver Dyer, January 1, 1849.

John C. Calhoun

#Unions Quotes #Sovereign Quotes #States Quotes

“You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!”
“I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better.”
“I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme when I was younger: I would write a song about somebody, and they would come to my show. I wouldn't be able to play the whole thing, because, there would be some giant, loaded secret coming up in like, the third verse, or something.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.”
“For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.”

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