Vernon Howard Quotes
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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Kathleen Blackshear just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it was a discussion group where everyone had a say, and it was a tremendous learning experience.
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Dad read the sports page. My theory was that he kept up with the sports world in order to be able to have a decent conversation with his brothers—​that was the way he loved them.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
