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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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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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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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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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.
