W. Clement Stone Quotes
Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.
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Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?
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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
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My own feeling is that he was a shyster and that he would become anything to get his way. Like, if he met you, he would be preaching papal supremacy.
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I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.
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Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
