George Leonard Quotes
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
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When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
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We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
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I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
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Louis C.K. is great. But I don't know how many you could do.
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What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.
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I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.
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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
