Bill Dedman Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages.
