Bobby Bowden Quotes
People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
