Kerri Strug Quotes
Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
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Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.
