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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. Reality continues to ruin my life. Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is…
It’s an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It’s like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can’t take that lightly. You have to play the logic of a character. Yeah, a lot of people think I’ll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me. When the time…
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft. There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. If I have to…
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I’d have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade. My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. When you dominate other people’s emotions, the time has to come…
The public are not stupid. I’m not going to say that every record I’ve put out was the greatest record in history, but I’d stand by even the bad ones. Don’t make excuses, make hits. Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question….
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. Nothing can be more hurtful…
Growing up I didn’t watch movies. I and haven’t been unemployed for 20 years. I’m an exception to the rule. Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people…
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams. Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. Few things can help an individual more than…
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence. The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. The defeat of the Americans…
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working. Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he…
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned…
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I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them… on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were. We played well in Kenya. We didn’t lose a game and we bowled Pakistan…
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead…
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. The mediocre teacher…
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. I would consider a half hour sitcom…
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the…