Napoleon Hill Quotes
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
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I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.
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The United States is a very important country to us in the international context. But on other hand, Angola is also important to the United States because of its location in the Gulf of Guinea and because Angola has many more natural resources to export.
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I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
