William Arthur Ward Quotes
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
Quotes to Explore
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
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You must always be faster and better than the others.
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When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.
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Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.
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I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.
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My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'
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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
