James Allen Quotes
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Give me to die unwitting of the day,And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!
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I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
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We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
