William Howard Taft Quotes
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn't work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.
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Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
