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 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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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
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Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.
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For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.
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When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
