"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."

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Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

Mary Antin

#Matter Quotes #Ruined Quotes

“If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."”

Source : Charles-James Fox (1815). “The Speeches ... in the House of Commons”, p.2
“It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.”
“I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.”
“The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.”
“My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.”
“Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.”
“Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders”

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