Jock Stein Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The world needs some help.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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Writers are so important.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.
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A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;Breath's a ware that will not keep.Up, lad: when the journey's overThere'll be time enough to sleep.
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While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.
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There is always a time to move on.
