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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Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.
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That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
