Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.
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As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
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My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.
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All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
