Deborah Rhode Quotes
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
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Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
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In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
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When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.
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My goal is to give students a real-life picture of what this life is like. Students can really decide whether this is what they want to do.
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Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
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Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.
