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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My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
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Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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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.
