Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
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The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
