Collis Potter Huntington Quotes
I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.
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Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
