Jim Valvano Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.
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As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
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If we show people that fear isn't actually the place that we have to surrender to, fear isn't actually the thing that we have to answer to, but instead, it's going in and loving people.
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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
