Dale Dauten Quotes
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
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There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
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It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
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There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
