Douglas Wilder Quotes

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Douglas Wilder

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I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

Jermain Defoe

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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

John Perry Barlow

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If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.

Jon Taffer

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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

Bode Miller

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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Bob Edwards

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We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

Arvind Gupta

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All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

William Gurnall

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If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.

Susan Sarandon

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For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.

Nikki Sixx

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I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Richard Foreman

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China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

Kenneth Fisher

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If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

Justin Cronin

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