Quotes with out-of-the-gates

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  • Blake Mycoskie Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
    Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Napoleon Hill War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Winston Churchill War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Martin Luther King War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Susan Sontag War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Joan Didion Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bill Halter Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Bill Flores Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • John Irving Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Lou Gerstner Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
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  • B. Kevin Turner We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Virginia Woolf We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill Gates We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Bill Bruford We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Adam Arkin We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Bill Gates We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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