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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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 found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.
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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.
