Vincent McNabb Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.
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My kids love me. I'm blessed.
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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
