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 obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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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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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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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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Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
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So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
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Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
