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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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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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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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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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Men are visual creatures.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
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I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
