Landon Donovan Quotes
I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
