Bill Dedman Quotes
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
Quotes to Explore
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
