John Abizaid Quotes
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I hate competition.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.
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It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.
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I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of course later became paymaster general, but at that time, he was working in politics.
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You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
