Paul Arden Quotes

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

Paul Arden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1940 - April 2, 2008

Topics

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I'm an equal opportunity despiser.

Jesse Ventura

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I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.

Jennifer Saunders

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I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

John Cusack

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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Andrew Cohen

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I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

Megyn Price

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I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

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When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

Amy Ryan

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By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Steve Erickson

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Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

Star Jones

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One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Siobhan Davies

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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

Stuart Symington

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My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Rory Bremner

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