H. W. Brands Quotes
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
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I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.
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For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
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I eat healthy, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy myself. I eat ice cream and chocolate, as my metabolism is pretty fast because I work out so much.
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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.
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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
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It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.
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Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
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I want to spend more time with my family.
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To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
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My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
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Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.
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The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.
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Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.
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John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
