Brian Boitano Quotes
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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I'm very religious.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.
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In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
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Sunday - A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
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Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.
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It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.
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The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
