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.
P. T. Barnum
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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.
Rachel Brosnahan
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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.
Gary Johnson
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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.
Rachael Harris
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay
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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.
Oscar Peterson
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
Maggie Q
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It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?
Lisa Gardner
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Quintilian
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
Eddie Redmayne
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Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.
David Crystal
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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.
P. T. Barnum
