Quotes 10041 till 10060 of 10439.
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You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
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You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
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You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
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You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.
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You don't get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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You don't really talk about it in terms of the U.N., you talk about it in terms of the United States and the Soviet Union. If you cannot, by diplomacy, bring the Soviet Union into an alliance with the U.S. to stop this situation it is not going to be stopped.
Source: Inside Washington, March 6, 1993.
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