Bill Dedman Quotes
As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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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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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.
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The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
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I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.
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This is America. Success is not guaranteed.
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We're so conditioned as a people to think that a military campaign has to be cruise missiles and television images of airplanes dropping bombs, and that's just false. This is a totally different war. We need a new vocabulary. We need to get rid of old think and start thinking about this thing the way it really is.
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Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.
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I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we come together to chart a better way forward and one that will restore confidence in, you know, small and medium-size businesses and consumers and begin to chip away at the unemployment rate.
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When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.
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As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
