Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
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Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.
