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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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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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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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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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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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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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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I don't like Philly. I don't care at all about Philly.
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.
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Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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.
