W. Clement Stone Quotes
Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) - you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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I respect the Premier League.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
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I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
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I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill's got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.
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Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) - you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.
