Ursus Wehrli Quotes
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
