W Mitchell Quotes
Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
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Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.
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Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
