Dan Fogelberg Quotes
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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I'm a sucker for a sad song.
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In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
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They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
