Norman Thomas Quotes
Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
Norman Thomas
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
Victoria Principal
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
Karin Slaughter
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
Ed Koch
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
Ted Danson
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
Edwin Morgan
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
John Lancaster Spalding
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Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.
Kristen Stewart
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
Bo Jackson
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks
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I loved talking to Sam Hodges. He was always very interesting, and I felt like I learned something every time I talked to him. I thought he was a fascinating man - maybe tough to work for, but he knew his business. He was extremely intelligent and fun to talk to.
John Young
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale
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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
William Nicholson
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When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.
Alexander Blok
