George Fernandes Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
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Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
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Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
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You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.
