Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I want to win football games.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
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You strip from me the laurel and the rose!Take all! Despite you there is yet one thingI hold against you all, and when, tonight,I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,I bear away despite you … My panache.
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Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.
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'I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.' '
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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
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[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
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Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.
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Become a possibilitarian.
