Angela Duckworth Quotes

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

Angela Duckworth

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My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.

Amy Purdy

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When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

Stef Wertheimer

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The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.

Su-chin Pak

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Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

Trent Franks

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Age is the thing that correlates best to what health coverage costs.

Tom Price

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My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

Robin Roberts

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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

Ron Paul

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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Mason Cooley

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Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

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Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

Diana Gabaldon

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I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Dick Van Dyke

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