D. B. Sweeney Quotes
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.
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If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
