W. Clement Stone Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
