Og Mandino Quotes
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.
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I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
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People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
