Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.
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At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!
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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
