Wonderful Things Quotes - Page 20

• A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Marriage, Night, Careers

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• One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

  Keith Carradine

  Opportunity, Actors, Life Is

  "Interview: Keith Carradine talks ‘Fargo’ and a ‘Deadwood’ anniversary". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

  Kevin Spacey

  Ambition, Careers, Focus

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• What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Inheritance

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

  David Stern

  Smart, Agents, Management

  "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!

  Louise Hay

  Past, Long, Negative

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

  Richard Dawkins

  Prayer, Believe, Mean

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

  Juan Gabriel

  Children, Things In Life, Childhood

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.

  Alex Kendrick

  Attitude, Atmosphere, Church

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

  Cornel West

  Black, Church, World

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

  Robin Ince

  People, Too Much, Excitement

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• Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  Iris Chang

  Baby, Couple, White

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• I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

  Warren Buffett

  Math, Years, Two

  "Three Hours With Warren Buffett - Live From Omaha". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. August 22, 2008.

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• Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Believe, Today

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• When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.

  Gavin Extence

  Sorry, Book, People

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• The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, People, Stories

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• You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

  John Green

  People, Listening, Trying

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.216, A&C Black

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• I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, People, Forever

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• It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

  Jane Green

  Pain, Joy, Someone You Love

  Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Attitude, Men, Mirrors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Smell, Wonderful

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• A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

  Derrick Jensen

  Mother, Hope, Giving Up

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

  Henri Matisse

  Music, Jazz, Wonderful

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• The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Wise, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 25, 2014

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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