Michael Bloomberg Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
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Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.
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Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.
