Douglas Brunt Quotes

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

Douglas Brunt

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For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'

Jenny Lewis

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The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

Andrew Tobias

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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.

Tom Chatfield

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I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

Roop Durgapal

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Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

Russell Peters

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Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.

Mary Steenburgen

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I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

Joss Stone

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It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

Piper Perabo

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I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

Prabal Gurung

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The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

Pope Benedict XVI

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I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

Peter Falk

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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Tim Cook

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