John Delaney Quotes
I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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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 think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
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I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.
