Vince Lombardi Quotes
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it.
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To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
