Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
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We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'
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A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
