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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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
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I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
