Nido Qubein Quotes
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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Everybody has problems.
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Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!
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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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'Oh, to be a minion,' muttered Giac to himself dreamily. 'I was a sub-minion.'
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.
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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
