Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have selective hearing.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
