Brad Thor Quotes
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I've never been a partier.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my energy comes from: I just won't be licked.
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There is no deodorant like success.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
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Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.
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I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.
