Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.
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A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
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It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
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The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
