Edward Bates Quotes
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
Edward Bates
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
Sabrina Carpenter
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
Dan Feuerriegel
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
Yael Stone
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
Orison Swett Marden
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
Patrick Demarchelier
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
Natascha McElhone
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Irving Langmuir
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Natalie Massenet
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A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.
Wale
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It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.
Chad Kelly
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We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.
David Zaslav
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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.
Carl Sagan
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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
Edward Bates
