William H. McRaven Quotes
And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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The Germans must be together.
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I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
