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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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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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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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.
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One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.
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It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.
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I'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet.
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I expected results.
