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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We have a lot we need to improve on, ... We've got a long ways to go. Certainly, I don't think anybody here feels like we're satisfied with our passing game or our rushing game right now, so I think you try to do a good job of analyzing it. But certainly our work, and what we're concentrating on, are ways to get more production. I would say across the board we need to step it up. I don't think anyone is satisfied with what we're doing.
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Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
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Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
