Og Mandino Quotes
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.
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Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.
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I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.
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My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
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I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
