Vernon Howard Quotes
It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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My parents are like religious atheists.
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God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.
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We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
