Berhan Ahmed Quotes
When I was young, I had a big problem with warts. It started with one on the side of my little finger. A year later, I had it on all my fingers. My hands looked like the hands of an alligator. So I fist bumped people instead of shaking hands for a few years.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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I am extremely excited for Melbourne. It will be my first race in Formula One and it is a dream come true.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
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When I was young, I had a big problem with warts. It started with one on the side of my little finger. A year later, I had it on all my fingers. My hands looked like the hands of an alligator. So I fist bumped people instead of shaking hands for a few years.
