Og Mandino Quotes
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.
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It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.
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We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
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There's no shame in a bronze medal. I used to think that, and I'm so ashamed of thinking that because there's so much joy and hard work and love in this.
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
