Max Cannon Quotes
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The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
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Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
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In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.
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My passion is the wrestling.
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Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
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Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
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I was a little worried that I was going to look like an overgrown fetus … Maybe that’s true. But it’s liberating. It’s very liberating. Everyone here should shave their heads.
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When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
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We say to others only what we need to hear.
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In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."
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No matter how sophisticated the reason, a murder is a murder, and similarly, it doesn’t matter how great the motive is, if you can’t kill, you won’t. But someone who can kill definitely will.
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I wanted to be a painter.
