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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
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Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House -
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
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For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
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For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
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For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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