Jack Canfield Quotes
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
