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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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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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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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.
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How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.
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I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
