Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
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I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.
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And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
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But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.
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It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.
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Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.
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It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
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I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
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Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.
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The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
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To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.
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Once a maggot, always a maggot.
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A joke a day keeps the gloom away!
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Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
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The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
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There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
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In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
