Bill Haslam Quotes
Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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For me, feeling good is line drives to left field.
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Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.
