Billy Blanks Quotes
I've liked what I've seen so far, and I'm just trying to get used to the college level,
Quotes to Explore
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I am really addicted to music.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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I have a couture body.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
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People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.
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When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
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I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.
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For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
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I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
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By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
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I've liked what I've seen so far, and I'm just trying to get used to the college level,
