Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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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 look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
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Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
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Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
