Ralph Hall Quotes
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest of the world doesn't seem to care. I'm not sure whether they don't remember or whether they've just moved on from it. I was brought up in the glam era.
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If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.
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It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
