Orison Swett Marden Quotes
We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation's spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must, in the long run, die of inanition, hardly enters into an Englishman's thoughts.
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When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
