Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
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I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.
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The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
