Bernard Holland Quotes
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
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I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
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Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
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In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
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Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.
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There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I'm not sure that's very realistic.
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
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Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
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I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
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It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
