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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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.
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If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
