Wonderful Things Quotes - Page 12

• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Be Kind, Wonderful, Easy

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• I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Bed, Want, Honest

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• Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

  Sydney Pollack

  Fields, Study, Graduates

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• I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Thinking, World, Chef

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• The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thank You, Sweet, Blow

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• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  Pat Robertson

  Prayer, Powerful, People

  Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2006.

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• You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Daughter, Mother, Nice

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• Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

  Gregg Allman

  Brother, Play, Records

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• Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Growing Up, Important, Wonderful

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• I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

  Rod Stewart

  Writing, Heart, Waiting

  "Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me'". Interview with Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Needs, Wonderful, Knows

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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  John Travolta

  Careers, Luxury, Track

  "Interview: John Travolta" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 15, 2004.

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• The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Wall, Berlin, Wonderful

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• Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants.  An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Expectations, Pants

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• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Evil, Entrepreneur

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• Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . Thats what I would like to do. I think thats one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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• Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Beautiful, Writing, Fiction

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• And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Memorable, Forever

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

  Connie Chung

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

  John Hurt

  Tunnels, Light, Realizing

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.

  Elisha Gray

  Nature, Lying, Science

  Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”

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• We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?

  Yvette Cooper

  Strong, Couple, Party

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• A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

  William Gilbert

  Life, Stars, Science

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• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Science, Joy

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cutting, Science, Doubt

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