Douglass North Quotes
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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Life will pay any price you ask of it.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn't dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.
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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
