Toni Braxton Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
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Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
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The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.
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People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
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The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.
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You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.
