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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However, I will say no more on this subject, for everything is guided and directed by the hand of God.
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I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
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When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.
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I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.
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I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
