P. T. Barnum Quotes
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.
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If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.
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I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
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Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
