Gabrielle Giffords Quotes
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.
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I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
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When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
