Chris Copeland Quotes
The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Philosophy asks the question of reality as a whole; it asks the question of the structure of being. And it answers in terms of categories, structural laws, and universal concepts.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.
