Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.
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Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.
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Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
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I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
