Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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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 was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I love basketball.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
