Jim Valvano Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
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The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
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I've always helped polo to grow.
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'
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We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
