Charles F. Haanel Quotes
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'
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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
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Everyone should have a great leather jacket in their wardrobe. It is perfect to wear with a T-shirt and jeans and great pair of high tops.
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My stupid ambition is to make a film that's not like any other - one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It's a film I'd love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn't able to predict the whole thing.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.
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Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
