Dennis Conner Quotes
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I don't like controversy.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
