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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I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
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It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
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The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
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All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
