Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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Therapy won’t work as long as people keep being pulled back into the past.
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I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.
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Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.
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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
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You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.
