Ethel Barrymore Quotes
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.
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There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
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A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
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The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.
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My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
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The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
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I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
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American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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My dad says he has doubts all the time, but he doesn't allow them to question that moment when he was nineteen.
