Walt Mueller (Walter John Mueller) Quotes
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
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I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
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I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.
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It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.
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I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.
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Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.
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The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
