William Arthur Ward Quotes
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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How much of the world did people miss because they were not calm enough, empty enough, to experience it?
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
