Bing Gordon Quotes
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
Quotes to Explore
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.
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I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.
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If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
