Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
Quotes to Explore
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I have a couture body.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.
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You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.
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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
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Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
