Sanford I. Weill Quotes
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I don't like allegories.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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I go to movies. I blend in.
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When people say I'm a star, I don't believe it.
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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016)
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I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
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I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
