Og Mandino Quotes
Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.
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A foreign company in a comparable industry should pay the same as a domestic company, even if their products aren't produced here. That can be achieved using measures in corporate tax law.
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Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
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Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
