Barber Conable Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
