Carlo Collodi Quotes
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.Carlo Collodi
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe -
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
Harriet Harman -
The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
Udonis Haslem -
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
Brown Campbell -
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
Usain Bolt -
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
Haley Barbour -
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
Rafael Palmeiro -
If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
Orison Swett Marden -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles -
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
Adam Cohen -
No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
Kate Capshaw -
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
Baz Luhrmann
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
Eddie Trunk -
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
Keenen Ivory Wayans -
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
Hannibal Buress -
Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.
Janet Reno -
In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.
Peter T. King -
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Carlo Collodi