W. Clement Stone Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
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I'm playing the game because I love it. But I'm also playing it for my family. You play for the glory, but you play for your family, too.
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Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while, and then it fades away. But if one of those lovers betrays the other, then you have a real emotion - then you have something powerful, something that leaves a mark you'll never be rid of. Betrayal is the most delicious of all, but it takes a while to set it up, and fear can be just as intense if you know what you're doing.
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The sky paled to green, a few stars looked out faintly, a light twinkled in the solitary house on Vilm, and the waiter came down and asked if he should bring a lamp. A lamp! As though all one ever wanted was to see the tiny circle round oneself, to be able to read the evening paper, or write postcards to one’s friends, or sew. I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.