John Wooden Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I don't do negative things.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.
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The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
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The superior man limits his achievements.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
