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.
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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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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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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
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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.
