Thomas Kinkade Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore - but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
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Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
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'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips.
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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
