Anthony Romero Quotes
We wanted to pick individuals who did have unique experiences and unique backgrounds.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
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When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
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Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
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I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences in my journal, than I do in reading much. Novels, even if they are good, pass out of my memory very rapidly. I enjoy it as I should a scene at the theatre; but am not essentially benefited by the incidents or morals. What more desirable at this period of my life than to find sources of daily peace and joy from within; that I think is true life.
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I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.
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I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!
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Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
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We wanted to pick individuals who did have unique experiences and unique backgrounds.
