S. D. Perry Quotes
For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
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Make of yourself a light.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
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Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
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For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.
