Charles F. Haanel Quotes
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
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Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
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We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.
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Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.
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I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
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Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
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The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there.
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Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
