J. G. Holland Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
