Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
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One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them.
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Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
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Where there is a will there is a way.
