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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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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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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I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
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So anyway, the show starts, and it's the Army band, and it's all those American 'ra ra' songs, you know that whole 'I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.' And they eat that shit up!
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
