Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't do negative things.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
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One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.