Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.
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We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.
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I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.
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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
