Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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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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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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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've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
