Karl Mecklenburg Quotes
You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
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Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
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In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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You're an awful little guy to be such a big thief.
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Who peppered the highest was surest to please.
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I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.
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You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.
