Joseph Priestley Quotes
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
Tadashi Yanai -
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas -
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis -
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
Irwin Winkler
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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.
Tallulah Bankhead -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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.
Jimmy Carter -
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.
Jeremy Sisto -
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.
Janis Joplin -
I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
Enda Kenny
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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.
Jesse Lee Soffer -
My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
Andrew Sean Greer -
I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.
Emily VanCamp -
I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.
Jason Reynolds -
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.
Benjamin David Goodman -
These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.
Ken Wilber
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. Sebald -
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
Leon Uris -
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
H. L. Mencken -
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
Joseph Priestley