William Arthur Ward Quotes
To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
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There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.
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To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.
