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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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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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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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to put up with her husband; he was gone constantly. She was independent and intelligent.
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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
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Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.
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Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.
