Mia Hamm Quotes
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
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From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system through four basic methods:
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
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I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.
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I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
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Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.
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I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
