Walter Isaacson Quotes
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
Gary Neville
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
Ed Harris
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
Irving Berlin
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
Sam Graves
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
Patrick Chappatte
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This is a strange game.
Carl Yastrzemski
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
W. Daniel Hillis
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
Gaby Hoffmann
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
Karl Jaspers
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Imelda Staunton
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
Flula Borg
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
Zhang Xin
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
Mandy Patinkin
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
Carl Paladino
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What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
Sam Shepard
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Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.
Ellen Meloy
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
Zig Ziglar
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson