Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.
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I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
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But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.
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Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
