Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Quotes to Explore
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
