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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I really, really love to move. You know what I mean? I mean, it's not a workout, but I absolutely love to do it, and that's performing, which is very close to doing Zumba. When you're onstage and you're moving everything, every single part of your body, it's actually working and active to the tips of your fingers. You're burning a hell of a lot of calories. And I think that's what people always look forward to - they want to know how many calories they've burned, and it's really important to actually know that and know your nutrition even more.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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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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I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
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The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
