Doyle Brunson Quotes
I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.
Quotes to Explore
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I am a just man.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
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The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.
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I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.
