Doyle Brunson Quotes
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century's end, other peoples and other cultures will have largely repopulated the Old Continent. European Man seems destined to end like the 10 lost tribes of Israel-overrun, assimilated and disappeared.
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Ultimately, it's not our responsibility to turn Afghanistan into a 21st-century, vibrant, economic, liberal democracy with a little L. Our responsibility is to keep Americans safe, to make sure we don't have a failed state in a region. It's not our responsibility to reconstruct Afghanistan.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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After everything I've been through, I've realized I can do anything I put my mind to. And I want to do it all.
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My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.
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I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
