Christian D. Larson Quotes
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."
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To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
