Mary Pierce Quotes
If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
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Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!
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If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.
