Patricia McBride Quotes
In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I am a just man.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
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I want to see America set the example to the world both in our domestic and foreign relations of magnanimity.
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Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.
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Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.
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I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.
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In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
