Og Mandino Quotes
I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
Quotes to Explore
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
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I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?
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Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.
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I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
