F. Thomson Leighton Quotes
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
Jackie DeShannon
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
Damien Chazelle
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Ralph Richardson
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
Kate Upton
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
Zubin Mehta
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
Kangana Ranaut
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
J. C. Chandor
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
Joanne Rowling
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd
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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!
Rafael Cruz
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Maeve Binchy
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
Jack Hanna
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
Taylor Swift
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer
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Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Brigham Young
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I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.
Aleister Crowley
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Xun Kuang
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Kuang
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That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
W. Kamau Bell
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That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel.
F. Thomson Leighton