Alfred Sheinwold Quotes
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.
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It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
