David Cobley Quotes
All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
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In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.
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All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
