Samuel Smiles Quotes
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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I will run against anybody.
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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I put myself through college playing pool.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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I've just sort of gone with the flow and I ended up here. Crazy. I'm not going to start planning anything, my life is way better than anybody could have planned it.
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Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
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A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
