Gay Hendricks Quotes
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.
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The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
