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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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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Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
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Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.
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The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
