Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I get homesick.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
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I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
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I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.
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There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.
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We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
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Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.
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If it's worries you want the whole world is yours.
