William Whiting Borden Quotes
If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.
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It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.
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It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
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You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.
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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
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A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
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If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.
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If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
