Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I am definitely a person of color.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.
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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...
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What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
