Edward Whitacre, Jr. Quotes
I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.
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Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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Instant, soluble coffee has long been the unspeakable wasteland of the coffee business. Conventional wisdom would be that no premium brand should go near it. But Howard Schultz's vision from day one has been to bring quality coffee to the mass market.
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The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.
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I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.
