Jimmy Stewart Quotes
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.
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The northern part of the state is very much like a Deep South state. Obviously, the Miami area is an international area.
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Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
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It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.
