Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
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I do go to the gym five days a week. Read more at https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/by-j-r-bourne#laZIuFZ5CffvPzkp.99
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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It's absolutely incredible, and his retirement should be a celebration more than anything else.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
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I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
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Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!
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Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what you want - invest, save, spend, buy a bigger house, a nicer car, and give to charity. And lower taxes also lead to more money for the government to use on those things they've promised you. It's a win-win for everyone.
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Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
