Winston Groom Quotes
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl.
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
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You don't know what's going to happen to you in the next hour. So you just live your life, live to the best of your potential, and just be happy.
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
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I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
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I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
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It's no accident that the fastest growing states with the best economies are all led by Republican governors.
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Ohio does have an energy industry, but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country. We came back from the dead.
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If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
