Wilbur Ross Quotes
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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
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The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
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However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
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In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.
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I'd rather go to the playoffs than not go, even with a losing record. Because once you get there, you never know.
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Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
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Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.
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There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.
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We've been talking a lot about the desserts ? private accounts. But not the spinach.
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Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.
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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
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I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
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Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.
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It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
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I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
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Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.
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A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.
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My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.
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Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.
