Napoleon Hill Quotes
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.
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That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.
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One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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Take Mitchel here - no - on second thoughts - don't - because he's a crude little bugger.
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We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
