Bela H. Banathy Quotes
We cannot improve or restructure a horse and buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how much money and effort we put into it.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
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I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.
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Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.
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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.
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There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticion - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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We cannot improve or restructure a horse and buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how much money and effort we put into it.
