Amanda Foreman Quotes
Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.
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I've lived the torment of the names. I've lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life.
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My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
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I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.
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I remember going from rookie ball to A, to double A, then to triple A. At every level it seemed like the game was faster. The bigger the situation, the more the game speeds up. That's all mental. It messes people up.
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Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.
