Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
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All records are not made to be broken.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
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To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
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The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
