Anne Provoost Quotes

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

Anne Provoost

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• I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.

  

  Barry Lam
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  • Mission

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

  

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• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

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• Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

  

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• Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

  

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• What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

  

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• For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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  • Pursuit

• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

  

  Ken Robinson
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• Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

  

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  Kabir Sehgal
  • Up
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  • May

• I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.

  

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  • People
  • Women
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• The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

  

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• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

  

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• I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

  

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• It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • Burden

• Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

  

  Anne Provoost
  • Burden
  • Chosen
  • Heavy