Ed Parker Quotes

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

Ed Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 19, 1931 - December 15, 1990

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Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it's all women's responsibility to step forward.

Jessica Chastain

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Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

John Gourley

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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

Amy Chua

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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.

Amy Cuddy

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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.

Steve Rushin

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There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Shuji Nakamura

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The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

Michelle Dean

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Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

Derek Jeter

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I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.

Annie Wersching

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The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

William Westmoreland

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We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

Tim Griffin

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So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.

Noreena Hertz

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