William Arthur Ward Quotes
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.
Quotes to Explore
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
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Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
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I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
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I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
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It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.
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Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.
