Douglas R. Oberhelman Quotes
I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.
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I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.
