Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Quotes to Explore
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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As I get older, I find that cardio is less important to me. What I want to do more of is intense stretching.
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I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
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The Sun Dancers also put rabbit skins on their arms and legs, for the rabbit represents humility, because he is quiet and soft and not self-asserting - a quality which we must all possess when we go to the center of the world.
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Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
