Petter Stordalen Quotes
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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There is no one true church.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.
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I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.
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When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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If you work hard, it will pay off.
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Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.
