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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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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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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Music should always be first.
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I was a very close friend of Dash Snow's, so whenever I get a chance to revisit his work, that's always amazing for me.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.
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The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.
