Manuel Moroun Quotes
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I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.
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In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.
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I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
