William Arthur Ward Quotes
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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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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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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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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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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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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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
