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Elbert Hubbard Quotes

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915

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Friendship Long Debate Sometimes May

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Life Good Sports Time Baseball End

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Intellectual Kind Development Tennis

Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

Snow Eyes Quality World Kind Pretty

I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.

Power Responsibility People Think

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Life Food Quality Wine Three More

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Good People World Better View Place

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

Hometown Mayor Made Once Newark

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Martin Scorsese

Seeing Go Editing Old Shooting Only

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Everyone Own Critic

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

Time Experience Grateful Think Mad

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

People Believe Create Want Myths

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

Good Time Attention Acting Write

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