D. B. Sweeney Quotes

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

D. B. Sweeney

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• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

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• An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
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• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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  • Cancer
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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Stories
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• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
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• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

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• I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

  

  Andy Gibb
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• You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

  

  Rod Stewart
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• I'm not a royal family watcher.

  

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Good
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• Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Learn

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn