Sam Graves Quotes
Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
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Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
