Vernon Howard Quotes
If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
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'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'
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My parents approached me to go to rehab... So I ran away. I just took off running. I went to a friend's house and I went pretty buck wild. I was snorting Demerol, OxyContin. I don't really remember much.
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Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
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Economists are neither distinctively good nor bad, no more or less virtuous or brave or generous or faithful than the sum of mankind, and certainly no more modest.
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Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
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We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.
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Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.
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If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.
