Chris Blackwell Quotes
I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
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In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
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I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.
