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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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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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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It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
