Bruce Nordstrom Quotes
I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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I am so loyal.
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].
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Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.
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I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.
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Could this approach to public health have something to do with the fact that the incarceration rate in Norway is 71/ 100,000, in the Netherlands 81/ 100,000, and the US 781/ 100,000, while the crime rate in those countries is much lower than in ours, and the cost of medical care about half? Seventy percent of prisoners in California spent time in foster care while growing up. The United States spends $ 84 billion per year to incarcerate people at approximately $ 44,000 per prisoner; the northern European countries a fraction of that amount. Instead, they invest in helping parents to raise their children in safe and predictable surroundings. Their academic test scores and crime rates seem to reflect the success of those investments.
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I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.
