Orison Swett Marden Quotes
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
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My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure.
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One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
