Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
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There is God, and it doesn't matter who you are or what you are doing, there is God in this world, and there's a lot of love for everyone, and it doesn't matter where you are from, the important thing for me when I read The Shack script - the thing that Jesus is, he is a friend.
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The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
