Orison Swett Marden Quotes
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.