Eric Greitens Quotes

Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

Eric Greitens

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

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• The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

  

  Foxy Brown
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• I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

  

  Alan Watts
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• Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Friends
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• My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization . . .I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy

• I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Men
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• I'm just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That's my motivation; that's what I strive for. Tim is one of the greatest players who has ever played, so if I could get close or reach that plateau and have my name on that list.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
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• I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
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• Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

  

  Dean Kamen
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• I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

  

  Chief Joseph
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• The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn't the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk - that's the new prime time, isn't it?

  

  Mark Burnett
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• I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

  

  Jason Momoa
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• I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • People
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• A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Job
  • Friend
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• Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Remember
  • Transformation
  • Choosing