William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.
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Since I've been in an actor, I've lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm - I had the fortune of working in different locations. If you live someplace long enough, you acquire slightly different systems of thought, and it influences your outlook on life. I just slowly adapted the way I speak.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.
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There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
