William Penn Quotes
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
Quotes to Explore
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
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I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
