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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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It's not an 'Internet movement.'
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
