Bernard Lagat Quotes
You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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I still keep my accent.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of true wealth creators.
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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
