Jack Wagner Quotes
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
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I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
