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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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.
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If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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Our productivity growth has not been that great over the past few years. Now we've got this investment appetite and that could really start moving us up productivity-wise. The downside is you don't need as many jobs in the sector as you did before.
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If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
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My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
