Earl Nightingale Quotes
We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
Quotes to Explore
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.
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I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
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We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
