Tom Golisano Quotes
Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!
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Some you win some you lose.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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I know people are going to put the main focus on stopping me, so I need to learn how to make my teammates better by passing and creating opportunities for them.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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When you are playing 'Survivor', getting a shelter up immediately is the most important thing.
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Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
