Napoleon Hill Quotes
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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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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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.
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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
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There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
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When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
