Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Quotes to Explore
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
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....and planted her boat right on top of the one in front of her.
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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
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Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
