Napoleon Hill Quotes

If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I miss baseball.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
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The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
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Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.