Nido Qubein Quotes
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
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When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
