Bill McDermott Quotes
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I love to perform live.
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I put up some great numbers.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
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I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'
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I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
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Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
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I'm a forward, and I dream of a goal in the World Cup, pushing it, kicking it from outside the box, wherever. I dream of scoring at a World Cup.
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But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
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I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
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I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
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