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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We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
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We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.
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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
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I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.
