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'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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My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none.
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Ernie is our governor, and I expect he will be re-elected in 2007.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
