Al Duncan Quotes
Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
Quotes to Explore
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
