Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes
All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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You have a shelf-life on TV.
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I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free to change our minds, and as we change our minds, our experiences will also change.
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All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
