William Arthur Ward Quotes
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
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I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
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I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.
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We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.
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Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.
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I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.
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Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?" "It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
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Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.
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Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.
