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You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political… — Jim DeMint
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar… — Ani DiFranco
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. — Dorothy Dix
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. — Isadora Duncan
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two. — Edie Falco
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you… — Tina Fey
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute. — Nathan Fillion
There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the… — Tom Hanks
The possible ranks higher than the actual. — Martin Heidegger
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. — Don Herold
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. — Carl Hiaasen
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the… — Lauryn Hill
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' — John Hodgman
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. — Eric Hoffer
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens.… — John Irving
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. — Kazuo Ishiguro
The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport. — Curtis Jackson
When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to… — Arne Jacobsen
Belief creates the actual fact. — William James
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover,… — Gertrude Jekyll
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that… — Penn Jillette

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