Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
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We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
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It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
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There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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I was excited to turn 60.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
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I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.
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I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
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What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
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Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
