Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) Quotes
My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air-the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.
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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
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I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.
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I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
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I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
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In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
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Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.
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You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
