Fred L. Turner Quotes
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
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I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
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Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
