Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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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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Women drive box office.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
