Orison Swett Marden Quotes
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
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I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
