Picabo Street Quotes
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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My strength is my wrestling, but I don't focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of different things like knees, elbows, submissions, and submission defense - just a lot of different things.
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I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.
