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 try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
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Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
