Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo -
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
Jacob deGrom -
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone -
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom -
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
Najib Razak -
At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
Marc Andreesen -
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
Jack Wild
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Edmund White -
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
Maajid Nawaz -
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
Laura Robson -
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
Danica Patrick -
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
Patricia Ireland
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I think Joshua has been doing a good job winning his fights and beating the guys in front of him. You got to congratulate him for his success.
Deontay Wilder -
The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
Ashwin Sanghi -
No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.
Napoleon Hill -
We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
Karen Mills -
We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.
Lois Frankel -
Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.
Sarah Ban Breathnach