Jack Welch Quotes

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• I have been surfing since I was six years old.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
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• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
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• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
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• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
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• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
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• I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Country
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  • Girl

• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
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• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I like to watch the men play. I like the way that they're playing, and I can always learn something from them. They're playing differently than the women, so I like to learn from them as well.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
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• I moved from acting to stand-up because castings are just about what you look like. It doesn't matter if you can act or not. In comedy, no one cares what you look like.

  

  Mark Billingham
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• When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• As far as vocal preparation goes, it’s really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It’s really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.

  

  Davey Havok Blaqk Audio
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Walking

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
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