Gabriel Basso Quotes
Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
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We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
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I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
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I try to be led by my curiosity.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
