Joseph Priestley Quotes
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
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Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.
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If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
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I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
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Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.
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My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
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I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.
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I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.
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I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
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These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.
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The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.
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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
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It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
