Fran Tarkenton Quotes
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.
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I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
