W. Clement Stone Quotes
Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) - you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.
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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 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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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.
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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,Such as fating us to spend the first part of our livesbeing embarrassed by our parents and the last partbeing embarrassed by our childer.
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) - you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.
