Lenny Wilkens Quotes

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Lenny Wilkens

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We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.

Melanne Verveer

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Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

Michael Beschloss

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I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

Stephen J. Dubner

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There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Soichiro Honda

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Children have their own mind.

Sridevi

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I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

Sondre Lerche

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You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus a movie.

Travis Beacham

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I have hosted many shows in the past. Anchoring is something I really enjoy; hence, when I was offered to host the show 'Super Dancer,' I was excited to take it up.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

Mike McCarthy

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And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.

Jason Mraz

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My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Joni Mitchell

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So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

Dinah Sheridan

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