W. G. Grace Quotes
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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You have good days and bad days.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
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I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
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I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
