Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

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• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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  • Period

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Woman

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
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  • Family
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• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Environmental

• In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Faith
  • Identity

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

  Hank Sauer
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• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Different
  • Want
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• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Good
  • Past
  • Cool

• Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

  

  Charles Luckman
  • Success
  • Courage

• I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  

  James Surowiecki
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  • Wall
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• And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

  

  Donald Cargill
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• Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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