Wendy E. Long (Wendy Elizabeth Long) Quotes
I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.
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I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
