William Arthur Ward Quotes
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.
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I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.
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I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.
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For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.
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Whenever I'm in L.A, I see Jessica Biel.
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When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
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A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.
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I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.
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We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would be strange if we did that from abroad. We don't need performances in the West to put Putin's regime under pressure. The punishments against us have shown us that we succeeded.
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I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.
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When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
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90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
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For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.
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If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.
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I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter
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Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting
