Earl Lloyd Quotes
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
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I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.
