Orison Swett Marden Quotes
More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
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Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
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Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
