Alan Brennert Quotes
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
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It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
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Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.
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I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
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Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject.
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It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
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Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.
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The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
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What helped me a lot is the fact that I have a very short neck. If I had a neck like a stack of dimes, you can bet I couldn't take a good shot. But the fact that I had a short neck and worked on it a lot (as opposed to most fighters who don't work on their neck muscles) definitely helped. I would stand on my head against a wall and move my head back and forth, side to side, for half an hour or so while talking on the phone.
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Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
