Alice Dearing Quotes
Things need to speed up absolutely everywhere. You can’t just have elite swimmers come from absolutely nowhere. So our focus is on the learn-to-swim side.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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Things need to speed up absolutely everywhere. You can’t just have elite swimmers come from absolutely nowhere. So our focus is on the learn-to-swim side.
