Norman R. Augustine Quotes
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.
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Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
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I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president.
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Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them
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[The baby] will come with me, that’s the plan
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Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other
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There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer... But you do that when you're friends, too, don't you? The thick and thin stuff.
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I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
