Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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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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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.
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Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.
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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
