Christoffel Wiese Quotes
I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
Quotes to Explore
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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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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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.
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I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
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I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
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I can't go anywhere without being recognized. I'm.
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I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
