Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see, and they're what motivates me.
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.
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The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identify our music as that. I think that by writing pop, or instant, accessible or hopefully catchy music, it shoes you into bigger audiences because it seems that more people like that music. I think the possibilities are endless if you stick to a simplistic short song; the music can be as wild and bizarre as you want it to be, as long as at the core of it, there's something really strong.
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
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The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.
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The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
