Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
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I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
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I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
