Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
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I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.
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It's such an intense thing to make a film.
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The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.
