Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.
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Working on 'X Men,' I got to do a lot of flying and fighting, which was good fun.
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Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
