Anthony Doerr Quotes
Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
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For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
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Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.
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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.
