Bernard Ebbers Quotes
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.
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I was alone more than most kids.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.
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I expected results.
