Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
