Ardel Wray Quotes
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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Satisfaction is the death of ambition.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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The current status quo works against the interests of all. The time has come to move forward all together, leaving behind restrictions and confrontation.
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Selfless action is a source of strength.
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Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.
