Mitch Leigh Quotes
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
