J. Maarten Troost Quotes
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.
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One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
