Benjamin Percy Quotes
I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
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We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.
