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 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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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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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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We had heard online that there were a number of pro athletes who were big fans of 'Pitch Perfect.' We came to learn that the primary fans were these Green Bay Packers.
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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
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I was wrapping up my stint on 'Daredevil' co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the 'Season One' books, I was intrigued - I'm a big advocate of books for people new to the medium - and said yes.
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I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
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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.
