Patrick Henry Quotes
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
Quotes to Explore
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
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I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
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Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
