Wilbur Ross Quotes
I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
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We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'
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That's my responsibility. Obviously we wanted to be much more productive than what we were in the playoffs. We always each year try and look real hard at everything, and that'll be one of the things we look real hard at is, offensively, how can we do a better job.
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If I have to go somewhere else, a lot of things are going to have to be changed or you're going to have an unhappy player, If I'm not happy, you don't want me on your team. It's that simple. I'll make that known to anybody.
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There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
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Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.
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It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
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According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.
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Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
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The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
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I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.
