Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

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• We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

  

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• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

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• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

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• At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

  

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• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

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• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

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• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

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• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

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• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

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• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  

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• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

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• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

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• We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

  

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• Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.

  

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• On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

  

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• There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

  

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• Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Work
  • Man
  • Blessed