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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There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.
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Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
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All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.
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I wear a bracelet bearing the name of a fallen hero, Matthew Stanley, which his mother, Lynn, gave me in 2007, at a town hall meeting in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. His memory and the memory of our great leaders deserve better from me.
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The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out.
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The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.
