Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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I like Public School and En Noir.
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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I like being unconventional.
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Give me a mirror.Or holy water. I'll drink it,even!" I gasped as someone threw water on the side of my face. "A little warning next time would be nice.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
