Arthur Gordon Webster Quotes
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
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I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
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My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.
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I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.
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This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'
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We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.
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He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.
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In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
