Maurice Greene Quotes
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
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We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
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My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
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'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.
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You need to walk the talk, because you can't expect your organization to behave a certain way that you're not willing to behave.
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Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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He had chosen to spend his days in the world of men. Life was what mattered, its slow, priceless pulse, its burning fragility; his debt lay with those importunate Flanders echoes that had never really left him. The private could aspire to be a general because both general and private, at their best, recognized the dire importance of strategy, fortitude, the value of their imperiled existence; but when the machinist became the executive he left the world of tangibles and human conjugacy and entered a shadow world of credits and consols - a world that seemed to reward nothing so much as irresponsibility and boundless greed. And when the thunder rolled down upon them - as he knew it would - how would he feel, playing with paper, striving to outwit his fellows, drinking imported Scotch evenings and listening to the brittle parade of comedians on radio ...?
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If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.
