Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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A personality will not choose unfavorable circumstances of rebirth until he himself sees that necessary discipline can be achieved in no other manner. Therefore extremely hot and extremely cold countries go largely undeveloped.
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The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
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I will confess to you that never for one moment have I had any doubt that I had to do what I did, and when I look back I don't see what more I could have done, having regard to the state of public opinion and the sharpness of party feeling. That is a tremendous solace to me. Few men can have known such a reversal of fortune in so short a time.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
