Beth Mowins Quotes
Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.
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Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.
