Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
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Failure is a part of success.
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You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?
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I used to be a bitch. I met her at Hooters. She didn't have big boobs, but she could turn her head in a circle just like an owl. (p. 2).
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”
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Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind.
