Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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All children should have equal opportunities.
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Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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If youth only knew, if age only could.
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When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.
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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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I never was an amateur wrestler.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I have the soul of a director.
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According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.
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If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!
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Most things still remain to be done!
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We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.
