Bill Shoemaker Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
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I never have regrets! What's the point?
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I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.
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It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.
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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
