John Hay Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.
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Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
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Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.
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The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.
