Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
