Dan Quinn Quotes
One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
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Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
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Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
