Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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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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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
