David Ramsey Quotes
The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
Quotes to Explore
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
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Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.
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The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
