George Allen, Sr. Quotes
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
George Allen, Sr.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
Beck
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
Gail Sheehy
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
Action Bronson
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
Viggo Mortensen
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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
Astro Teller
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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
Joanna Lumley
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I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.
Matthew Reilly
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There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.
Peter Maurer
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
George Allen, Sr.
