Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.
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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.
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We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
