Donald Byrd Quotes
My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now—over and over again they said the same things, and nothing new was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead. Nothing further was to be expected of them; while of the living, what might one not still expect?
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.
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My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.
