P. T. Barnum Quotes
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I love action movies.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
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I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
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‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’
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Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
