Clarence W. Barron Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Everything can be improved.
