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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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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It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.
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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
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Success can not be administrated.
