P. T. Barnum Quotes
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.
Quotes to Explore
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.
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Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.
