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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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
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I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
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The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening. I know that my brain is composed of a cerebrum, a cerebellum, and a medulla oblongata, but these are just words. I know that electrical impulses are involved somehow, but that is about the extent of my understanding of the mechanics. And while I at least have an intuition as to how an airplane works, I really have none with respect to my brain. Frankly, lots of what appears on my computer screen is as much a surprise to me as it is to you. I certainly never expected over my oatmeal and English muffin this morning to be writing about Bernoulli's principle today. For that matter, I have no idea why I like English muffins. But I do.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
