Will Durant Quotes
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
Yuvraj Singh -
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
S. E. Hinton -
I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
Canelo Alvarez
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
Olivia Holt -
We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
Kate Brown -
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons -
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
E. O. Wilson -
I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
Jacki Weaver -
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
Irwin Winkler
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I've got a serious-looking head.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
A. R. Rahman -
When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
Gary Lineker -
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers -
Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
Dan Pink -
When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.
Anderson Silva
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I've got nothing to prove
Jon Bon Jovi -
One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.
Jim Barksdale -
I dyed my hair for photo tests... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
Ben Affleck -
If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.
Jack Roy -
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
George Bernard Shaw -
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
Will Durant