John T. Chambers Quotes
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
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This is the first time in my lifetime that a president has been from a city. From a place I would go. He's from Chicago; I love Chicago! I go there! Would I ever go to Wasilla, Alaska? Or Hope, Arkansas? Or Plains, Georgia? Or Crawford, Texas? Not on a bet! There's a reason small towns are small: no one wants to live there.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.
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You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry.
