Asahel Nettleton Quotes
If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world.
