Tristan MacManus Quotes
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
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I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
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Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.
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Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
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I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
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I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
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We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
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I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.
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I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.
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Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.
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I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages.
