Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
Sam Shepard -
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
Sadie Jones -
Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn -
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart -
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King -
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra -
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis -
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian -
I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
Zhang Zhidong
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco -
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Pat Summitt -
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks -
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla -
I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
Manolo Blahnik -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey
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That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.
Bill Kurtis -
It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
Phil Jackson -
After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
Wagner Moura -
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
Eloisa James -
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
Henry Ward Beecher