Arthur Brisbane Quotes
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
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Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
