William Arthur Ward Quotes
Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.
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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.
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I'm convinced that faith is a matter of inspiration, not a matter of imposition. It is something a person models rather than mandates. Faith does not impose itself on other people. Imposition usually sacrifices somebody else; it seeks to injure or extort others. This is what the terrorist does in an attempt to impose his religion on the world.
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When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.
