Og Mandino Quotes
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
Quotes to Explore
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
