Bill Dedman Quotes

New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• 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?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Art
  • Subject
  • Idealism

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.

  

  Jason Day
  • Life
  • Family
  • Golf

• There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Kids

• Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

  

  Alan Lakein
  • Life
  • Time

• Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

  

  Drake
  • People
  • Strong
  • Words

• I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Music
  • Long
  • Bored

• New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Time