Barry Sanders Quotes
Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
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Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.
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Of course, any movie that I make, that is released everywhere, gets a lot of exposure.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
