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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Long
  • Job
  • Help

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Past
  • Feeling
  • Bridge

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Trying
  • Fool
  • Said

• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • God
  • Words

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• What force is more potent than love?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • Force
  • More

• I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Old

• The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Together
  • Dream

• I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Death
  • Sun

• You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Know
  • Stand

• Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Together
  • History

• I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Fan

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Act

• I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • People

• Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Sky

• In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Career

• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Child

• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

  

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