Norman Cousins Quotes
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
Harbhajan Singh -
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
Karin Slaughter -
To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
Clemence Poesy -
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
Bob Lilly -
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.
Kevin Kwan -
Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.
Jeff Fisher
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'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
Caroline Shaw -
The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
Albert Shanker -
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.
Alexander Haig -
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
J. C. Ryle -
There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
Oprah Winfrey -
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
Barack Obama
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I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
Lisa Kudrow -
You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.
Haile Gerima -
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.
Van Jones -
Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
Lao Tzu
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
J. B. Pritzker -
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
Walter Alston -
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
Jaime Lerner -
I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
H. G. Wells -
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins