Vernon Howard Quotes
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail. Pray for me. Pray.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.
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There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
