Reid Ribble Quotes
My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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My songs are about who I am.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
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I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.
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Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationships is a key part of being a leader - and increasingly so, the higher you go.
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People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.
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I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
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…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
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When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
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My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
