Felicia Hemans Quotes
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I grew up on films.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.
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My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.
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An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
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I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.
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Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!
