Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)
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Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
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Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
