Wendy Davis Quotes
It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I've always been full-figured in a not-boyish way.
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In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.
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Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
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The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.
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The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
