Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.

Laura Hillenbrand

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We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

Robert Reich

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

Steve Garvey

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Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Sue Townsend

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It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.

Sonita Alizadeh

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What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

Stewart Butterfield

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While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

Russell Crowe

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For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Mike Huckabee

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At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Monique Roffey

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If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Don Rickles

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I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

Dayo Okeniyi

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