Anson Carter Quotes
If you're looking for a silver lining to a dark cloud, that would be it, ... I wasn't traded for a bag of pucks. It helps your confidence to know that you are being traded for quality hockey players. It's been interesting. I've been moved around quite a bit, always in big trades. Most times, the reasons were economic ones.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
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I am going to take a long, hard look at when we think we should start up.
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You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
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Trying to win five straight is a tough deal up here. Our backs have been against the wall for five weeks.
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What we're doing is talking and that is always better than not talking.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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I think you form a bond of different personalities where even without saying a word you challenge each other to be good. You don't want to be the weak link in the chain.
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As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
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When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
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When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.
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The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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We need financial measurements for sure—but we don’t need them for their own sake. We need them for two different reasons. One is control; knowing to what extent a company is achieving its goal of making money. The other reason is probably even more important; measurements should induce the parts to do what’s good for the organization as a whole.
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If you're looking for a silver lining to a dark cloud, that would be it, ... I wasn't traded for a bag of pucks. It helps your confidence to know that you are being traded for quality hockey players. It's been interesting. I've been moved around quite a bit, always in big trades. Most times, the reasons were economic ones.
