Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
Quotes to Explore
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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Nothing keeps its promise.
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I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.
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Don't torture yourself... that's my job.
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Cabaret presents different challenges, as it is all on me. I love having the freedom to say anything you want - do anything you want. It is a lot of responsibility, and if it works, you get all the kudos, and if not - all the blame.
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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts.
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It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
