Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.
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You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
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Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'
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Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination.
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The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.
