Paul Sweeney Quotes
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
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I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.
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'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.
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My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
