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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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
