Eleanor Mondale Quotes
My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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There is always pressure in football.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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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 think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I love simplicity.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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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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Making music is fantastic.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
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I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
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Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
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Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
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Nobody wants to be a bad parent.
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My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.
