Brandon Webb Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.
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That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
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The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
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Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
