Harvey Mackay Quotes

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

Harvey Mackay

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If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Andrew Motion

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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

John Hillcoat

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Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.

Stephen McFeely

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At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.

Steve Scalise

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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Robert Falcon Scott

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I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

Lukas Haas

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Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

Jason Kander

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I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

Drake

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I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Chief Joseph

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At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.

Antony Beevor

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I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government.

Allyson Schwartz

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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

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