Bryan Adams Quotes
And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.
