Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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A young girl's heart is indestructible.
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I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
