Jim Valvano Quotes
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
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I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
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From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting and binding effect of shame: to tell the story of our suffering to safe and supportive others.
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
