Napoleon Hill Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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We should never hesitate to use military force, and I will not, as president, in order to keep the American people safe. But we have to use our military wisely. And we did not use our military wisely in Iraq.
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Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
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Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.
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I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.
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Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!
