Patrick Henry Quotes
When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
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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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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I write novels and other things.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I love what I do.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?
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When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels.
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If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
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Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
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In a breath of silence in a whisper, God speaks to you humbly.
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When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
