William Walker Atkinson Quotes
Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?
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I love my refrigerator.
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When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock it down to one place because it's all part of our imagination. They are legends for a reason. Their stories have endured for hundreds of years and, hopefully, they will for hundreds of years to come.
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I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
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I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
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The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
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A man's man has no problems with commitment, as long as he's not with a woman who needs to be committed.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
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Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.
