Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
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I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.
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When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
