Napoleon Hill Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
