Donald Luskin Quotes
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
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Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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As long as I feel like I'm helping kids get better, I don't see why I should stop.
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.
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You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.
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The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.
