David Brock Quotes
I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
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As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
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If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
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The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.
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Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
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A woman who was not afraid to die was not afraid of anything.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
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I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.
