P. T. Barnum Quotes
The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.
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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
