Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
Quotes to Explore
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on 'civil liberties and human rights' conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.
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How often we say about our earthly friends, I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them. And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.
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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
