Ricardo Semler Quotes
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
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School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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I just want to compete and do what I love.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.
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Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star.
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My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.
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Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
