Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Small aim is a crime.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'
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As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.
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No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.