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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

All Things Democracy Mediocrity Tendency
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Belongs Both Breeding Candor
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Abuse Ambition American Common
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Becomes Child Citizen Controlling
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Impossible Enslave Mentally Human freedom
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Fame Vapor Accident Riches
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

America Colonies Different Establishing
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Democracy Exhibit Form Law
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Another Better Christian Coat
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

Active Cannot Costly Depends
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Men Great riches Culture Business
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Action Aim Being Citizen
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All-Around Any Around Character
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Been Break Consequence Direction
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Abuse Disposition Does Majority
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Combinations Common Expense Individuals
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Acquisitions Age Apt Becomes
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Doing Enjoying Everything First
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Destroy Going Life Like
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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

About Dangerous Get How
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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Came Coming Dad Died
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I become kind of obsessive about research.
About Become Kind Obsessive
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

About Achieve Foot Game
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It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

About America Freedom Intolerant
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Actor Appreciated Back Bit
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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Bedroom Dark Feels Go
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Actor Actor Film General
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Acting After Educating English
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Another Any Direction Having
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Before Film Like Morning
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Absurd Accent Being Bring
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Another Back Children Collage
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You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

Actor Certain Get Hard
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

About Am American Another
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

Actor Basis Because Capture
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God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

America Australia Bless Christ
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The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Criticism Down Driven Highest
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I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Divide Feel Here Learn
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People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Accuse Arrogant Being Focused
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

About Family Get Immediate
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Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Been Else Everyone EveryoneElse
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