Orison Swett Marden Quotes
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.
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Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
