John Eisenhower Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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That's why my work is now more powerful and less arbitrary, as if seen by another person, and illuminated from outside.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
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I was a lieutenant in World War II.
