George Allen, Sr. Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
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We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
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A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
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Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
