John Ortberg Quotes
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
John Ortberg
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
Questlove
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
K. Flay
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
Mae Jemison
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
Kate Forsyth
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
Quavo
Migos
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
Dan Fogler
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
Xavier Rudd
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
Manish Dayal
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
Olga Korbut
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I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar
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I chase after inspiring stories.
Vera Farmiga
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Your credit score takes into account years of information in most cases. It's not going to improve in a day. But it may improve more quickly than you think. Generally, the last 24 months carry the most weight, so if you can keep clean for that long, you'll see a boost.
Jean Chatzky
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.
Harold E. Varmus
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The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
John Ortberg
