Bob Lilly Quotes
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
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Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.
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I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
