Thomas Dewar Quotes
The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
Thomas Dewar
Quotes to Explore
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
Patrick Macnee
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
Dambisa Moyo
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.
Caroll Spinney
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When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
Kristy Swanson
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My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
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I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
Amy Purdy
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I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.
Uwem Akpan
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The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
Thomas Dewar