Orison Swett Marden Quotes
It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.
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Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.
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We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
