James A. Garfield Quotes
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.
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It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.
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It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.
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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
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I am a poor hater.
