Al Leiter Quotes
For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.
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Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.
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For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.
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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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Music will save the world.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Logic is logic. That's all I say.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
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My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.
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We don't program movies. We don't run studios. We make movies.
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Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
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For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
