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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My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and the grand challenges facing humanity.
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I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.
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We have the Nasdaq private market. But we also want to make sure that every investor has an opportunity to ultimately join in growth and the success of these great companies that we have that have been formed in the United States.
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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
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L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
