Lorenzo di Bonaventura Quotes
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
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There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up.
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Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.
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But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
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I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree - like, no student loan you have to pay off. That's huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.
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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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I mean, I'm not a contrarian.
