Amby Burfoot Quotes
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
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In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
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I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
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Courage is crossing a starting line.
