Ken Venturi Quotes
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
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It's those damn critics again.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire-one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.
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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?
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I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
