Kay Arthur Quotes
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
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I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying inflation pressures were to weaken, if market-based measures of inflation compensation were to fall appreciably further, or if survey-based measures were to begin to decline noticeably.
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I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.
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You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
