Orison Swett Marden Quotes
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would not be OK if I couldn't.
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When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
