Chris Isaak Quotes
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.
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I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource - our people.
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
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We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
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The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.
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It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.
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I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.
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I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.
