William Arthur Ward Quotes
Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.
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The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
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Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
