Damon Runyon Quotes
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.
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My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
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Even though I am in my mid-40s, I live like I am in my mid-20s.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
