Douglas Wilder Quotes

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Douglas Wilder

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Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

Joe Montana

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Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

Jennifer McMahon

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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

Simon Cowell

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The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Juan Enriquez

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When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Joyce Meyer

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Organizations, whether they are nonprofits or enterprise, need to be aware that nation-states are coming after them for political espionage, economic espionage, or destructive attacks.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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Some guys look better as they get older.

Dolly Parton

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I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.

Christen Press

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No one wants to get beat up in front of the world.

CM Punk

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I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

Brandi Chastain

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