James R. Thompson Quotes
At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.
James R. Thompson
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
Abby Wambach
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
Ramez Naam
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
Tamora Pierce
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
Tammy Duckworth
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
D. H. Lawrence
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
Baz Luhrmann
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
Oliver E. Williamson
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
Larry Elder
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
Tavis Smiley
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When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.
Lou Adler
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You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.
Busy Philipps
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Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
Joel Sternfeld
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Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.
Jared Cohen
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At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.
James R. Thompson
