Bobby Bowden Quotes
A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.
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It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
