Mia Hamm Quotes
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Quotes to Explore
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
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I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.
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I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.
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I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
