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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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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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.
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Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?
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You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
