Zig Ziglar Quotes
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.
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The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
