Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
