Red McCombs (Billy Joe McCombs) Quotes
Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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Just know what's inside your food.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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The majority of my audience has always been women.
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When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.
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Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
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Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
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Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
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When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
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Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!
