P. T. Barnum Quotes
The plan of 'counting the chickens before they are hatched' is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.
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My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
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The plan of 'counting the chickens before they are hatched' is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
