Ralph Marston Quotes
Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
Quotes to Explore
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
