Merle Shain Quotes
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
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I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
