Arleigh Burke Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Palantir owes much of its success to the amazing talent of the first 30-40 technologists who joined the company, as well as to the internal leadership that helped motivate this core group to achieve its ambitious goals and to continue to attract extraordinary people.
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Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.
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Success now is waking up in the morning and being comfortable in my own skin. You can go to a job that pays well, but if you're not happy in yourself or if you're not grateful for what you have, it means nothing.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
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Success can not be administrated.
