Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes
Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
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As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. On one occasion my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
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Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.