Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.
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Possess your soul with patience.
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I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
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Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
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Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
