Charles E. Wilson Quotes
Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
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Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.
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All that I have achieved has been possible not only because of my own strength and perseverance, gained through hardship, but also through other people's support and belief in me.
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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
