Bill Rodgers Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.
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When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
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If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
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Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
