Lynn Swann Quotes
Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I'm not a sun person.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.
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Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
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People, I am the son of the people. I pledge before God that I will sacrifice myself for your sake. I shall offer my life in defence of the Iraqi people.
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It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.
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Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
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Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
