Foster Friess Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I try to do my best.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'
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I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.
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One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
