Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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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 don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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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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This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
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I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
