Bill Dedman Quotes
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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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 have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.
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I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
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In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
