Neil Lowe Quotes
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.
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The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.'
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
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There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
