Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Vikram Seth -
Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad -
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
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.
Dacre Montgomery -
You mustn't upstage the bride.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
Ian Watson -
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster -
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.
Ted Sarandos -
I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
Natalie Massenet -
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.
Carl Jung
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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.
Ram Kapoor -
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.
Karl Rove -
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.
Tamara Tunie -
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.
E. O. Wilson -
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston -
All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
Parker Harris
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
Federica Mogherini -
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
Olympia Dukakis -
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Confucius -
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Henry Ward Beecher