Charles Kendall Adams Quotes
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
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I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
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Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
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If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
