William Arthur Ward Quotes
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
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You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?
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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
