Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
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Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
