W. Clement Stone Quotes
Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Libya stood as a source of stability in volatile northern Africa in 2011. The administration turned it into a failed state that exposed southern Europe to refugees and terrorist elements, all of which Gadhafi had warned about.
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
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I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.
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By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.
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Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.
