Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
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I get 'The New Yorker,' and I'm usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, 'Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!' But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.
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When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.
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There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming.
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People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
