John Corey Whaley Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
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When asked, 'So, what are you going to do with the rest of your life?': 'I'm going to be a jockey.'
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
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When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.
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Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.
