Don Kardong Quotes
There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.
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The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
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A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
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There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
