Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
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Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.
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It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
