Wilson Greatbatch Quotes
Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.
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When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
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Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
