Foster Friess Quotes
You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
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Some you win some you lose.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
