John Gokongwei Quotes
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
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In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.
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I think the real problem is all the negative connotations people have with that term. They think, 'Oh my God! I don't want to be 'plus-size!'' But people attach too much significance to terms. We can't let these terms define us or our beauty.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.
